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Hi

Well I installed a VB6 on a different computer and
install the ActiveState Perl and Komodo etc and ran the
simple "hello world" expamle.

this is what I get at the end of "out.make" :L

link: invalid option -- o
Try `link --help' for more information.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

I spent the better part of this afternoon trying to get
around this. I have read most of the doc without coming
to clar understanding of where or how I can get around this.

All hints welcome.

Angel

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Re^5: inline c
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 23, 2007 at 05:37 UTC
    I installed a VB6 on a different computer

    I assume you mean "VC6", not "VB6".
    There should be no trouble with Inline::C on ActivePerl, using MSVC++ 6.0.
    Try running your scripts without Komodo (to begin with, at least) - that will make troubleshooting easier.
    Also, try installing Inline::C from CPAN source. (I'm assuming you installed Inline::C using ppm.) Just download the source from http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/, extract the file to some location, 'cd' to that location and run 'perl Makefile.PL' followed by 'nmake test'. If there are no errors run 'nmake install'. If there are errors, tell us what they are. (Copy and paste the output inside <code> tags.)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Hi Rob et. al.

      Actually it was Visual Studio 6 which is the C compiler. When I run the the scripts from the command line I get the same errors that I get inside Komodo. I did install the Inline::C with ppm and it was 0.44 and seemed to go fine but I will download it and install it manually just to be sure. I will write to you with the <code> tags.

      Angel

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      Hi,

      I did the download and the manual perl Makefile.pl that
      seemed fine, thenI did the nmake test and was mostly errors.
      To many to list here so I placed the text file at:

      http://volcanbaru.com/OSOP/monks/
      the txt file is the output of the perl Makefile.pl
      and the nmake test.
      I have also zipped the entire folder in case it helps.
      I read that errors messages and the were mostly quite cryptic.
      What should I try next?

      Angel

      Hey!! I can be trained!!

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        (quoting from the build log you linked to) 

                link -out:blib\arch\auto\xsmode\xsmode.dll -dll -nologo -nodef
+aultlib -d
ebug -opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"C:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86 xsmode.ob
+j   C:\Per
l\lib\CORE\perl58.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib w
+inspool.li
b  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netap
+i32.lib uu
id.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.l
+ib msvcrt.
lib -def:xsmode.def
link: invalid option -- o
Try `link --help' for more information.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x1'

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        I can't help getting the impression that it's not the linker belonging to the compiler suite that's being called here, but rather some Windows port of the Unix command 'link'  - at least, if I type the respective command on my Debian box, I get a rather similarly looking output: 

        $ link -out:...
link: invalid option -- o
Try `link --help' for more information.

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        I wouldn't be too surprised, if you got 

        $ link --help  
Usage: link FILE1 FILE2
  or:  link OPTION
Call the link function to create a link named FILE2 to an existing FIL
+E1.

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

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        if you typed link --help  :)

        In that case, make sure this command is no longer found along the search path, while trying to build stuff...   Just a thought.

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