The dlltool conundrum ...

Given that dlltool always runs flawlessly, I'm not sure that doing away with it should be highly prioritised. Then again, if dlltool is as anachronistic as you say (and I don't doubt you), then it's hard to argue against replacing it with something more contemporary.

I don't have the expat library in a place where it's found by default, so I ran your XML-Parser distro by starting with perl Makefile.PL INC="-IC:/_32/msys/1.0/local/include" LIBS="-LC:/_32/msys/1.0/local/lib -lexpat" and that all works fine on Strawberry Perl (5.10). But doing the same on my own MinGW-built perl 5.10, all of the tests fail (during 'dmake test') because Can't find 'boot_XML__Parser__Expat' symbol in C:\_32\comp\XML-Parser-2.36_04\blib\arch/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.dll .

I don't know why such a discrepancy arises. The CPAN version of XML-Parser-2.36 builds fine on *both* of those aforementioned builds of perl. I use different versions of dmake when building modules for those 2 builds of perl - but I doubt that's the reason. More likely some difference in EU::MM, I suspect. (It's a little intriguing ... but not nearly enough to make me go diving into the sources :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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