Re^4: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows

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Re^5: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 07, 2009 at 02:13 UTC
Using those binaries (for libxml2 and libiconv), I started with building the pre-requisite XML-LibXML-Common-0.13. I can build it ok, but 'nmake test' throws up a nasty little runtime showstopper: C:\_32\comp\XML-LibXML-Common-0.13>nmake test Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved. C:\_64\perl1004\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.p +l 1..8 # Running under perl version 5.010000 for MSWin32 # Win32::BuildNumber 1004 # Current time local: Thu May 7 11:28:37 2009 # Current time GMT: Thu May 7 01:28:37 2009 # Using Test.pm version 1.25 Can't load 'blib\arch/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.dll' for module XM +L::LibXML: :Common: load_file:A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine + failed at C:/_64/perl1004/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 202. at test.pl line 10 Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 10. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 10. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\_64\perl1004\bin\perl.exe' : return cod +e '0x22' Stop. [download] I'm still trying to find/work out what needs to be done about that. There's an accompanying pop-up telling me that a runtime error (R6034) has occurred, and "an application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly". Googling suggests that it might be something to do with that fucking half-arsed "manifest" puke that the peabrains at Redmond dreamt up. (I don't have VC 8, though I do have the msvcr80.dll.) In order to build, I unzipped those xml2 and iconv binaries into `C:\_64\x64_lib`, then, having already set up the environment for the SDK compiler, I ran: `set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;C:\_64\x64_lib\include set LIB=%LIB%;C:\_64\x64_lib\lib set PATH=%PATH%;C:\_64\x64_lib\bin` [download] Then I threw the Makefile.PL that ships with XML-LibXML-Common to the shithouse, and replaced it with: `use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile( 'NAME' => 'XML::LibXML::Common', 'VERSION_FROM' => 'Common.pm', # finds $VERSION 'AUTHOR' => 'Christian Glahn <christian.glahn@uibk.ac.at>', 'ABSTRACT' => 'Routines and Constants common for XML::LibXML +and XML::GDOME', 'LIBS' => '-lxml2', );` [download] Then ran 'perl Makefile.PL' and 'nmake test'. If we can get past that runtime error it should be fine - and we can proceed to building the other modules. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 07, 2009 at 16:35 UTC
You can't just "have" the msvcr80.dll, or one of them with that same name. You have to install the redistributables. It puts several versions, different 32 and 64 bit files, into its SxS cache.	[reply]
Re^7: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows (solved) by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 07, 2009 at 23:42 UTC
Well ... at least I've got XML-LibXML-Common-0.13 built and working fine. Turns out I just had to embed libxml2.dll.manifest (which was in the package's 'lib' folder) into libxml2.dll - which I did by moving the manifest to the 'bin' folder, cd'ing to that folder, and running: `mt -nologo -manifest libxml2.dll.manifest -outputresource:libxml2.dll; +2` [download] Thanks jand, for pointing out to me that it was the xml2 and iconv dll's that needed the embedded manifest. (For some reason, the iconv dll was ok - perhaps the manifest was already embedded in it.) Now, I spose I might as well try and build the other dependencies and XML::LibXML itself, just to verify that it can be done. I'll report back later (for the benefit of the thousands of people who are intently following this thread ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^8: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows (solved) by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 08, 2009 at 02:22 UTC
Re^9: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows (solved) by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 08, 2009 at 16:02 UTC
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Re^6: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2009 at 03:07 UTC
Maybe just copy libxml2.dll.manifest to the same directory as libxml2.dll?	[reply]
Re^7: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 07, 2009 at 05:03 UTC
Maybe just copy libxml2.dll.manifest to the same directory as libxml2.dll? I don't have any '.manifest' files to copy - at least none that I can find. I think it's actually a Common.dll.manifest that's needed (or a manifest embedded into Common.dll), but I have no clue how to go about dealing with this issue. Apparently there's an mt.exe command I can run, but I don't know what it is and the `mt /?` documentation doesn't provide any output that I can understand. I've tried updating to EU-MM-6.50, but that doesn't help, and I've checked out some recent threads on perlmonks that deal with the problem (which also haven't given me the solution). Not to worry ... it'll turn up eventually. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]