Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows

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

Ok, I wrote I was tempeted to do it, but I was afraid of my own inexperience; then bart said it's really "that simple" and I had grown increasingly frustrated with not having a handy platform to test e.g. the code from the (self-proclaimedly) most interesting post I wrote as of late: then I tried! That is, to install MinGW on my system to use CPAN to install binary modules for ActivePerl, but specifically, autobox (there's nothing else I'm missing from PPM's that I know of...) Actually, it is that simple: I also tried installing a random XS module and it built like a charm.

Of course, passing to autobox is a whole another matter: it should build for 5.10.0 too, and indeed it compiles just fine. But then it fails quite a lot of tests. "Oh, well!" I thought, and I tried forcing the install, just for experimenting, you know: in fact all experiments including the most elementary ones do fail to the effect that the syntax is not even recognized; I get a runtime error about not being allowed to call a method without a package or object reference.

Is there anything I could do to have this module install cleanly?

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Re: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by jand (Friar) on Aug 28, 2008 at 00:44 UTC
Which ActivePerl version were you using? I had no problems build and testing `autobox` with dmake and MinGW using the latest ActivePerl 5.8 and 5.10 release. Note that you can also install `autobox` from the new beta PPM repositories. These repositories should work for any ActivePerl build 818 and later (and will become the default repositories in 824 and 1004).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by blazar (Canon) on Aug 28, 2008 at 08:12 UTC
Which ActivePerl version were you using? I personally believe: `C:\temp>perl -v This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread` [download] I had no problems build and testing `autobox` with dmake and MinGW using the latest ActivePerl 5.8 and 5.10 release. I'm using `nmake` but that shouldn't make a difference, should it? Note that you can also install `autobox` from the new beta PPM repositories. Let's see... Read more... (2 kB) OMFG! It works!! You have my eternal gratitude! I know I could be bashed harshly for saying this, but it's one of those occasions I would really like PM to have a social-network-like "status" update (a là Twitter) and then I would write there how happy I am for having eventually solved this problem: and indeed I would probably be bashed, if I said so in PMD rather than here; in fact that's the reason I'm refraining to do so, however tempted I am... Incidentally, now that you brought the AS beta repositories to my attention, I wonder whether they should be added to the PPM Repositories page of the Win32 Perl Wiki. `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by Anonymous Monk on Aug 28, 2008 at 07:07 UTC
builds/tests for strawberry Read more... (59 kB)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 28, 2008 at 08:12 UTC
C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CORE/config.h:4426:28: warning: "/" within comment* Just as well the author had the foresight to include `-Wall` in the compilation, or we would not have seen the 365 occurrences of that warning :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 28, 2008 at 06:37 UTC
But then it fails quite a lot of tests. Do you have all pre-requisites installed ? Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by blazar (Canon) on Aug 28, 2008 at 08:21 UTC
[Even if the problem is now solved] I personally believed that CPAN.pm would take care of that out of the box. Oh, who minds?!? I'm keeping MinGW, anyway: just in case I should need it for some other "esoteric" module; or should I eventually resolve myself to get some rust off my C and perhaps learn some XS programming... `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l]