Re: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin

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Re^2: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Mar 29, 2008 at 03:35 UTC
I just built a Perl 5.10 with the link flags added to makefile.mk, but that didn't solve the problem with Devel::Cover. What did work was to add the following symbols to global.sym (two more than mentioned above): `Perl_pp_nextstate Perl_pp_nextstate Perl_pp_setstate Perl_pp_setstate Perl_pp_dbstate Perl_pp_dbstate Perl_pp_entersub Perl_pp_entersub Perl_pp_cond_expr Perl_pp_and Perl_pp_andassign Perl_pp_or Perl_pp_orassign Perl_pp_xor Perl_pp_require Perl_pp_exec Perl_pp_dor Perl_pp_dorassign` [download] This may be wrong way to do this since the comment at the top of global.sym says it's auto generated by "make regen_headers". However there doesn't seem to be a make target for that, so I don't know. It's a workaround for this particular module anyway. Now, whether this is a good idea or not, I can't tell you. I have no clue about those issues. I do know, however, that I would very, very much like Devel::Cover to build on Windows. /J	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 29, 2008 at 06:16 UTC
What did work was to add the following symbols to global.sym .... Seems that's one way to make those symbols public. Nice hack - though if you ever need to access a different private symbol, you'll have to rebuild perl again. I'm curious to know whether the Devel::Cover that you built with this hacked perl-5.10.0 will work on an unhacked perl-5.10.0. (Others would probably know the answer to that without needing to test it.) Have you tried that out ? If it works on the unhacked version of perl, then it could be handy for others if the binary of your build of Devel::Cover (either ppm package or just a tar.gz of blib) was made available. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Mar 29, 2008 at 19:37 UTC
That did not work. Devel::Cover unsurprisingly needs access to the symbols during both build and run time. Tried it with a 5.8.8 because that's my existing installation with lots of modules I don't care to reinstall. Instead I patched the current installation by building a Perl 5.8.8 with the exported symbols, and then: `cp perl58.dll \strawberry-perl\perl\bin\ cp lib\CORE\libperl58.a \strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE\` [download] This is clearly a hack, not a long-term solution. What that solution is I don't know. But I imagine either officially promote those symbols to be public, since such an important module as Devel::Cover rely on them, or; create an interface to allow Devel::Cover to instrument/inspect the internals the way it clearly needs to do to work its magic. Damn, that was a lot of yak shaving to start doing interesting things! /J	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Problems installing Devel::Cover on Strawberry, seems to work on Cygwin by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Mar 28, 2008 at 14:26 UTC
Well, adding the -Wl,--export-all-symbols option to ld sounds very promising I think, considering that it does work on Cygwin, and that that's one of the config diffs betwen Cygwin and Strawberry. I don't know how easy it would be to test that with Perl::Dist (which is the builder of Strawberry, no?), but presumably not very. /J	[reply]