TFT, Rob.
Sadly, we are currently committed to Open Watcom ... for logistic reasons - we need a solution yesterday and there's a huge (upto 3 month) delay before new software can be installed on the network, hence we've installed Open Watcom locally. We're gambling on the M$VC compatibility of Open Watcom to provide compiled code that will work with ActiveState perl.
The only person who got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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If you're already panicking and denigrating your OS of choice, why not have a look at Strawberry Perl? It includes a supposedly ActiveState compatible Perl and a fitting C compiler. All you need is some fiddling with Config-heavy.pl if you want to install it in a different path than c:\strawberry-perl as is the default.
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Whilst it is the OS of choice, it isn't my choice (*NIX) but that of the current client.
Thanx for the tip WRT Strawberry perl ... downloading as I write :-)
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We're gambling on the M$VC compatibility of Open Watcom to provide compiled code that will work with ActiveState perl.
I think that's quite a gamble. The freely available MinGW compiler works well with ActiveState perl. Neither its direct.h nor the direct.h in any of the MSVC compilers that I have define 'DIR'.
My best instincts tell me that you should dispense with Open Watcom and grab a compiler (preferably either MSVC++ 6.0 or MinGW) that's known to work with ActivePerl and is well supported (wrt ActivePerl).
I take it you have your own XS modules that you need to compile ? Otherwise you could just make use of the PPM utility to install pre-compiled builds of the CPAN modules.
Cheers,
Rob
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I think that's quite a gamble. The freely available MinGW compiler works well with ActiveState perl. Neither its direct.h nor the direct.h in any of the MSVC compilers that I have define 'DIR'.
My best instincts tell me that you should dispense with Open Watcom and grab a compiler (preferably either MSVC++ 6.0 or MinGW) that's known to work with ActivePerl and is well supported (wrt ActivePerl).
Given what you say WRT the DIR macro, there's a better than even chance that you're right.
I take it you have your own XS modules that you need to compile ? Otherwise you could just make use of the PPM utility to install pre-compiled builds of the CPAN modules.
Yep - we've got 2 tools both of which are provided with a C++ API ... I've searched high & low for perl wrappers for the APIs ... to no avail :-( hence the question.
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