My goal is to create a C extension to a Perl 5.005_02 installation using the XS module.

The first hint of trouble was that h2xs gave me a warning that "cppstdin not found."

After saying the necessary prayers to the Perl gods I succeeded in running 'perl Makefile' and 'make' without error.

However, when I run 'make test' I receive the following error message:

Can't find 'boot_EncryptPass2' symbol in blib/arch/auto/EncryptPass2/EncryptPass2.so'
EncryptPass2 is the name of the module I am trying to create using XS. But what is 'boot_EncryptPass2' and why do I need one? Neither the Srinivasan (Panther) book or the perlxstut documentation say anything about boot_ thingies.

I would really appreciate it if anyone who has knowledge of how to use XS to create a Perl module from C source code could help me. I know that Inline.pm is a better way to go but BikeNomad and I determined yesterday in SOPW that Inline.pm won't work properly in my development environment.

In reply to My Perl XS Module Fails At 'make test' by sierrathedog04

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