Why can't I compile in perl510s.lib and no longer need perl510.dll

I think you'll find that perl-static.exe does *not* need perl510.dll. It's very easy to test - just rename perl510.dll to something else (eg perl510.dll_hide), and then run perl-static -V
I think you'll find that runs fine, whereas perl -V will crash because perl510.dll can't be found.

Not that I really understand how things are supposed to work, but it does look to me that things are broken. For example, I would have thought that the Win32 extension would have been built into perl-static.exe, but that's not the case, and any call to load Win32 will try to load the dynamic version (for which perl510.dll *does* need to be found). The mileage you can get out of perl-static.exe without using perl510.dll is therefore very limited, afaict.

For the record, the static build I tried was with perl-5.11.2, I used MSVC++ 7.0, and the only amendments I made to the win32/Makefile (outside of the usual amendments) was to set "BUILD_STATIC" and "ALL_STATIC" to "define".

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: Compiling with static perl510s.lib by syphilis
in thread Compiling with static perl510s.lib by gszczesz

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