in reply to Re^2: RFC: Setting up a minGW compiling envronment for Perl 5.10
in thread RFC: Setting up a minGW compiling envronment for Perl 5.10

Well the dll isn't there yet, it's not been installed. It's still in the blib/arch/auto/Gtk2 directory in the build directory. Renaming it as per directed didn't help... wait no it set of a dmake clean and deleted everything. Grr. Trying again.

Righty the error is now The procedure entry point cairo_object_from_sv could not be located in the dynamic link library  (null). :(

...I am also beginning to suspect that there is another Config.pm file that I need modification as per the config script I use to set up Strawberry Perl.

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Re^4: RFC: Setting up a minGW compiling envronment for Perl 5.10
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 07, 2008 at 02:53 UTC
    Righty the error is now The procedure entry point cairo_object_from_sv could not be located in the dynamic link library (null).

    Looks like you instead need to copy I:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/Cairo/Cairo.dll to I:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/auto/Cairo/(null).dll and then delete any other instances of a file named (null).dll.

    Try that and re-run dmake test. (There's no need to first recompile Gtk2.) I suspect you'll get more errors.

    We probably should instead be trying to work out why *you* have struck this additional hitch, but *I* didn't. Hmmm ... better still ... we probably shouldn't even be thinking about it at all :-)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Interesting, Cairo's make install has put the cairo.dll in I:\strawberry\per\lib\auto\Cairo which makes me suspect that my script that reconfigures CPAN may be pointing to the wrong installation directory.

      As for recompiling... the Makefile has it's own ideas on that.

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        Cairo's make install has put the cairo.dll in I:\strawberry\per\lib\auto\Cairo

        I don't think that will matter. The real problem is that I gave you a bum steer on the 'dlltool' command that needs to be run. You need to specify the dll name in the command. Try: 
        dlltool --input-def Glib.def --output-lib libGlib.a --dllname Glib.dll

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        ... and similar re Cairo.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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