The compiler that built ActivePerl and your compiler use different C runtime libraries - and that *can* definitely be nasty - though, mostly, it's not an issue. And I think it's quite possibly *not* an issue here.

I've confirmed that the perl.exe process has two CRTL DLLs loaded: msvcr71.dll (7.10.6030.0000) and msvcrt.dll (7.00.2600.2180).

I surmise that both of these export errno and perl58.dll is linking to one and the Net/SSLeay.dll is linking to the other. Thus setting errno in Net/SSLeay.dll does not alter the value of $! in Perl. Indeed now I write this I seem to recall having heard of this exact issue elsewhere.

Anyway, none of this will help you much - except perhaps for the notion that your problem lies with Test::Exception, rather than Net::SSLeay per se.

Thanks, but having placed diagnostic prints of errno and $! just before the and after the return from the XS code and I'm sure I've isolated (and circumvented) this problem. I think it will turn out to be the first of many getting Net::SSLeay to work (see Legacy use of splice() as lvalue).

In reply to Re^2: errno in XS not propagating to $! - breaks Net::SSLeay by nobull
in thread errno in XS not propagating to $! - breaks Net::SSLeay by nobull

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