autobox as ppm package for AS Perl?

blazar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anybody have a precompiled autobox ppm for AS Perl, version 5.8.8? Currently my repositories are:

  +---------------------------------------------+
  Ś id Ś pkgs  Ś name                           Ś
  +----+-------+--------------------------------Ś
  Ś  1 Ś  6837 Ś ActiveState Package Repository Ś
  Ś  2 Ś   648 Ś uwinnipeg                      Ś
  Ś  3 Ś   420 Ś bribes                         Ś
  Ś  4 Ś 10501 Ś trouchelle                     Ś
  Ś  5 Ś    20 Ś SoulCage                       Ś
  +---------------------------------------------+
   (5 enabled repositories)
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But a search of autobox only turns out

  1: autobox-Core
     Perl built-in functions exposed as methods in primitive types
     Version: 0.3
     Author: Scott Walters scott@slowass.net
     Provide: autobox::Core version 0.3
     Require: autobox
     Repo: trouchelle
     CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/autobox-Core-0.3/
     Installed: 0.3 (site)
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Which depends on autobox itself.

Note: also posted in clpmisc at news:nsgtc3hbkc487nvfg2forde9tdfq4cnclc@4ax.com (link @ GG).

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Re: autobox as ppm package for AS Perl? by randyk (Parson) on Aug 24, 2007 at 13:37 UTC
I looked at building autobox with perl-5.8.8 (ActivePerl 820), but this fails when compiling the xs component with a missing symbol error. This is due to autobox.xs calling Perl_pp_method_named, which isn't available in the perl public API.	[reply]
Re: autobox as ppm package for AS Perl? by jdporter (Paladin) on Aug 11, 2008 at 14:18 UTC
As of today, ActiveState's repo for 5.8.8 has a build of autobox which you can install... but it's broken. Just loading the module causes a fatal memory exception. :-( Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.	[reply]
Re^2: autobox as ppm package for AS Perl? by blazar (Canon) on Aug 12, 2008 at 10:16 UTC
I see that it builds for 5.10.0 but unfortunately it doesn't ship from any of the available PPM repositories for 5.10.0. If I weren't that lazy, and short of time, I would try building it myself with MinGW which AIUI should be possible, except that I have no experience whatsoever doing so. `--` ~~If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.~~	[reply] [d/l]