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in thread ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected?

Thanks, have an engineer trying to build from CPAN and running into problems. We are running MSVS 8. He is getting errors on the make:

C:\Tcl-0.84>make -i /../"Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/bin/cl" -c -I/../Tcl/i +nclude -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DN O_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS + -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DVERSION=\" 0.84\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.84\" -I\..\Perl\lib\CORE Tcl.c Tcl.c link -out:blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll -dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug + -opt:ref,icf -libpath:"\..\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86 Tcl.obj \..\Perl\lib\CORE\perl56.lib \..\Tcl\lib\tcl84.lib -def:Tcl. +def Creating library blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.lib and object blib\arch\au +to\Tcl\Tcl.exp Tcl.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __fltused Tcl.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _strcmp referenced + in function _boot_Tcl LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __DllMainCRTStartup@1 +2 blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externa +ls make: *** [blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll] Signal 96 \..\Perl\bin\perl.exe -I\..\Perl\lib -I\..\Perl\lib -MExtUtils::Comman +d -e chmod 755 blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll
Are we missing something?

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Re^3: ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 02, 2010 at 02:32 UTC
    Are we missing something?

    Possibly that the latest CPAN incarnations of many packages will use features that were not available in the 5.6 days?

    5.8.0 came available circa 2002, so try Tcl-b2 which was the last version before that date. Then work forward.


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Re^3: ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2010 at 04:21 UTC