Re: Error compiling XS code with strawberry-perl 5.8.8-alpha-2

Those have worked for many of us with Strawberry Perl, so I wonder if you're experiencing some unexpected conflict with ActiveState. Some questions that might help us diagnose the issue:

Which perl is first in your $ENV{PATH}?
What do you get if you run "dlltool -V"?
Do other XS modules compile OK or is it just DBI and Template Toolkit that have problems? (Try Time::Piece)

-xdg

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Re^2: Error compiling XS code with strawberry-perl 5.8.8-alpha-2 by asz (Pilgrim) on Oct 17, 2006 at 13:47 UTC
actually ActiveState's Perl version was first in my %PATH%, but Strawberry Perl can happily coexist with that, provided that you run `perl` with the full path to the executable. please read about the details in my other post. certainly something that i would like to test is making binary PPD files with Strawberry Perl, perhaps using something like PPM::Make from CPAN. this would be beneficial for those (let say less experienced) users that are more confortable running ActiveState Perl with binary distributions than compiling modules from source, and lets face it there are some hard to compile modules, like those that require external libraries, not to mention failing tests, etc. - you get my point. like others i think there's a "market" for both Perl distributions :) anyway where is the best place to discuss something like this? the page from RT, the wiki? as far as i know there is no mailing-list related to Strawberry/Vanilla Perl... UPDATE: sometimes i'm too lazy to even read! there is good information about this on the Win32 Perl Wiki. thank you xdg for taking the time to answer this and for giving us this magnificent distribution. :)))))	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Error compiling XS code with strawberry-perl 5.8.8-alpha-2
by asz (Pilgrim) on Oct 17, 2006 at 13:47 UTC

actually ActiveState's Perl version was first in my %PATH%, but Strawberry Perl can happily coexist with that, provided that you run perl with the full path to the executable. please read about the details in my other post.

certainly something that i would like to test is making binary PPD files with Strawberry Perl, perhaps using something like PPM::Make from CPAN. this would be beneficial for those (let say less experienced) users that are more confortable running ActiveState Perl with binary distributions than compiling modules from source, and lets face it there are some hard to compile modules, like those that require external libraries, not to mention failing tests, etc. - you get my point. like others i think there's a "market" for both Perl distributions :)

UPDATE:

Win32 Perl Wiki

thank you xdg for taking the time to answer this and for giving us this magnificent distribution.

:)))))

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