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in thread Problems building Perl

I ran dmake -V. This is the print out: 

C:\Install\perl-5.10.1\win32>dmake -V
dmake - Version 4.12-20090907-SHAY (Windows / MS Visual C++)
Copyright (c) 1990,...,1997 by WTI Corp.

Default Configuration:
        MAXLINELENGTH := 32766
        MAXPROCESSLIMIT := 64
        .IMPORT .IGNORE: DMAKEROOT
        .MAKEFILES : makefile.mk makefile
        .SOURCE    : .NULL
        DMAKEROOT *= $(ABSMAKECMD:d)startup
        MAKESTARTUP := $(DMAKEROOT)\startup.mk

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Re^3: Problems building Perl
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 08, 2010 at 07:58 UTC
    I ran dmake -V. This is the print out:

    I have the same version of dmake - there's certainly no problem with it when it comes to building perl.

    So ... we start to question how you are going about building perl. If you extract perl-5.10.1.tar.gz to some location (let's assume it's C:/my_build) and then 'cd' to C:/my_build/perl-5.10.1/win32, you should be able to run dmake -f makefile.mk and have that succeed. (That's without first making any amendments to makefile.mk or any other file - which means that the perl that's built might not be configured as you would want. But dmake -f makefile.mk should run to completion without producing any errors.)

    What happens when you try that ?

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      I deleted my previous perl folder and extracted perl-5.10.1.tar.gz to 'C:\Install\perl-5.10.1'.

      Thereafter, I changed directory to 'C:\Install\perl-5.10.1\win32' and ran 'dmake -f makefile.mk'.

      The make seemed to take considerably longer, but I got the same error as before. There were also many undefined references reported prior to the error being reported.

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        There were also many undefined references reported prior to the error being reported.

        Ok .. looks as though there might be a problem with your MinGW installation. Can you give us a copy'n'paste of some of those "undefined reference" messages - you should have got no such messages at all.

        Also, how did you install MinGW ?

        Cheers,
        Rob
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