Hi L~R,

I think bart is correct in pointing the finger of accusation at 'lddlflags'. On my MinGW-built perl:

D:\>perl -V:lddlflags
lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"D:\perl58_M\5.8.8\lib\CORE" -L"D:\MinGW\lib"';

On ActiveState build 817:

E:\>perl -V:lddlflags
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.4 (mingw special)
lddlflags='-mdll';

Presumably this affects only M::B because M::B is the only module that needs to have the lddlflags specify the path to perl58.lib ... at least it's the only module you've come across where this has been the case. ActiveState should fix the lddlflags value to include the perl/lib/CORE searchpath when MinGW is involved.

I don't think the MinGW/ActivePerl interface is quite as seamless as the hype would have you believe. Last time I tried, neither PAR nor Inline::CPP would build. If you want to use MinGW with ActivePerl, I think you'll get more milage with ExtUtils::FakeConfig - which does set lddlflags (and others) appropriately, though I think there were a couple of entries in Config_m.pm (created by EU::FC) that needed amendment - I can provide details of that if requested. The drawback to EU::FC is that sometimes (eg building Inline::CPP or building PDL) you need to set the environment variable perl5opt to MConfig_m. Other times you may need that variable unset.

According to http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-windows/windows-5.8/Devel-Caller-0.11.txt the ppm for Devel-Caller-0.11 did not build because the pre-requisite Module::Build is not installed.

Oh ... and I now gather that failing tests marked as 'TODO' are allowed to fail ... didn't realise that when I first posted :-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^5: Help building Devel::Caller by syphilis
in thread Help building Devel::Caller by Limbic~Region

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