Re^3: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows?

Thank you for getting back! I will try another compile-run as soon as possible.

Update: I actually managed to get a version together that threw only warnings on dmake. A subsequent dmake -i got me to a runnable version of Win32::Dokan.
Anyway, running examples/mirror.pl resulted in an error: "&Win32::Dokan::constant not defined at mirror.pl line 17" with line 17 being

14: my $fs = Mirror->new("D:/");
15: my $mounter = Win32::Dokan::Mounter->new({debug_mode => 1,
16:                      use_std_err => 1});
17: $mounter->mount('W', $fs);
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Testing other combinations: this SVN version lacks a META.yml (the sourceforge version contains it) and using it with the modifications in Dokan.xs gave among warnings an error: "In function `set_file_time': Dokan.xs:296: error: incompatible types in assignment".

I hope this helps and you feel motivated for another release/patch on SVN: trunk that works more seamlessly with newer dokan.h.

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Re^4: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2009 at 13:49 UTC
I wrote small patch for starwberry perl. Try newer svn trunk with dokan.h(r7), please. I got good result with strawberry perl 5.8.9.	[reply]
Re^5: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by isync (Hermit) on Apr 09, 2009 at 21:13 UTC
Thank you for the patch. I really appreciate your effort! My experience this time was much smoother, but still not 100%. I fetched the newest revision from SVN and combined it with revision 7 of dokan.h. dmake ran through without error and resulted in a Dokan.dll in the blib\arch\auto\Win32\Dokan directory. But, as it seems, the dmake install routined did something wrong, I had to manually copy the .dll into my strawberry directory, so that Dokan.pm's "package Win32::Dokan::_DLL;" could find it in the ENV. (btw, I opted for the sub dir C:\strawberry\c\bin). In test-fs.t, ~line 33, there's is a typo in the path, see: `for my $p (split(/;/, $ENV{PATH}), 'C:\\Program Files\\Dokan\\DokanLIbrary', 'D:\\Program Files\\Dokan\\DokanLIbrary',) {` [download] the capital "I". And the sub assumes Dokan to reside in the default location (which wasn't the case on my system, I installed it in Program Files\\DokanLibrary... Then: Read more... (3 kB) Another note: I think I was under a misconception about how Dokan works. I wasn't aware that I need to have Dokan installed! I thought, having the Dokan.dll alone would suffice. But a call for dokanctl.exe during the tests told me that I need to have it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Perl to mount a virtual filesystem on Windows? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 11, 2009 at 09:15 UTC
Confusion in DLL loading As you understand now, Dokan library must be installed first. It provides dokan.dll (Dokan user mode library) dokan.sys (Dokan File System Driver) mounter.exe (Dokan mounter service) and some files. See dokan-readme for detailes. Win32::Dokan's Dokan.DLL is just an interface between dokan.dll (Dokan Library's one) and Perl. Win32::Dokan's Dokan.DLL will be found by DynaLoader, so you does not need to copy it manually. It will be copied to default place (C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\...) by executing "dmake install". I think this is an usual way for XS module. Win32::Dokan::_DLL searches Dokan Library's dokan.dll, not a Win32::Dokan's. If Dokan library is installed correctly, It will be found in System Folder. Test is improved Waiting method for test-fs.pl is changed. Hard coded waiting time is removed. To unmount test filessystem, unmount.pl is added Dokanctl.exe wil not be called now. (But this is little danger. If Win32::Dokan does not works correctly, test filesystem will be not unmounted. Any idea?) Thanks to your advice.	[reply]