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in thread Problems building Perl

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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Re^4: Problems building Perl
by mhartman (Novice) on Mar 08, 2010 at 11:23 UTC

    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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        I installed MingW by running the MinGW-5.1.6.exe install shield, that installed MingW onto my machine in the 'C:\MingW' folder.

        I have included a printout of the error that I received:

        C:\DOCUME~1\za100014\LOCALS~1\Temp\mk11 perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x3e4a): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume' perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x3f0c): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume' perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x40b4): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume' perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x42ca): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume' perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x45ec): undefined reference to `_Unwind_Resume' perllib.o:perllib.c:(.text+0x46e2): more undefined references to `_Unwind_Resume ' follow perllib.o:perllib.c:(.eh_frame+0x12): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_ v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status dmake: Error code 129, while making '..\perl510.dll'

        Regards Morne

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