in reply to Re^4: Which Version of Prolog
in thread Which version of Prolog

The ExtUtils::MakeMaker that comes with Strawberry Perl doesn't like libraries ending in .lib instead of in .a and I can not find any way to change this behaviour as it is hard-coded deep inside the ExtUtils::MakeMaker code.

But there is an easy workaround: just go to SWI-Prolog lib directory (C:/Program files/pl/lib by default) and run... 

> copy *.lib *.a

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Then configure the Perl module again (perl Makefile.PL) and compile it (dmake) and everything should work this time!

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Re^6: Which Version of Prolog
by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Aug 28, 2009 at 12:47 UTC

    OK, thanks for that. It cleared up the warning in the Makefile.pl, but the make (and I'm using NMAKE, do you think DMAKE would make any difference?) still crashed with more lines of output than I could count! Actually, while the dump is fairly daunting, if you just scroll down, it just seems like a whole load of normal compiler commands until you hit:

    C:\msys\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.
+exe: C:\msys\mingw\lib\libmsvcrt.a(dsjhs00137.o): bad reloc address 0
+x154 in section `.tex
t'.

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    Sadly, I'm not familiar enough with c-compilers to know what this means.

    Here is the Makefile dump

    C:\Perl\Language-Prolog-Yaswi-0.18>perl Makefile.PL
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw special)
retrieving SWI-Prolog configuration:
  running 'plcon.exe -dump-runtime-variables'
    PLBASE: c:/program files/prolog
    PLARCH: i386-win32
    PLLIBS:
    PLLIB: libpl.lib
    PLCFLAGS: /MD /GX
    PLLDFLAGS:
    PLSOEXT: dll
    PLVERSION: 50664
    PLSHARED: yes
    PLTHREADS: yes

checking thread support in Perl and SWI-Prolog:
  thread support enabled

creating plconfig.c
Writing Makefile for Language::Prolog::Yaswi::Low
Writing Makefile for Language::Prolog::Yaswi

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    Here is the nmake dump. 

    C:\Perl\Language-Prolog-Yaswi-0.18>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

        nmake -f Makefile all -nologo
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   Low.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   callback.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   callperl.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   hook.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   perl2swi.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   swi2perl.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   plconfig.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   argv.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   query.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   vars.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   context.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   engines.c
        gcc -c  -I. -I"c:/program files/prolog/include"  -DNDEBUG -DWI
+N32 -D_CON
SOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE 
+-DPRIVLIB_
LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -
+DPERL_MSVC
RT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -O2    -DVERSION=\"0.18
+\"  -DXS_V
ERSION=\"0.18\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   opaque.c
Running Mkbootstrap for Language::Prolog::Yaswi::Low ()
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 Low.bs
        dlltool --def Low.def --output-exp dll.exp
        g++ -o ..\blib\arch\auto\Language\Prolog\Yaswi\Low\Low.dll -Wl
+,--base-fi
le -Wl,dll.base -mdll -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" Low.o callback.o callperl.o
+ hook.o pe
rl2swi.o swi2perl.o plconfig.o argv.o query.o vars.o context.o engines
+.o opaque.
o -Wl,--image-base,0x28030000  C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl58.lib "c:\program
+ files\pro
log\lib\libpl.a" C:\msys\mingw\lib\libkernel32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\lib
+user32.a C
:\msys\mingw\lib\libgdi32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libwinspool.a C:\msys\mi
+ngw\lib\li
bcomdlg32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libadvapi32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libshell
+32.a C:\ms
ys\mingw\lib\libole32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\liboleaut32.a C:\msys\mingw\
+lib\libnet
api32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libuuid.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libws2_32.a C:\m
+sys\mingw\
lib\libmpr.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libwinmm.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libversion
+.a C:\msys
\mingw\lib\libodbc32.a C:\msys\mingw\lib\libodbccp32.a C:\msys\mingw\l
+ib\libmsvc
rt.a dll.exp
C:\msys\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.
+exe: C:\ms
ys\mingw\lib\libmsvcrt.a(dsjhs00137.o): bad reloc address 0x154 in sec
+tion `.tex
t'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x2'
Stop.

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