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',) {
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:
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]
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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.
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