cocl05 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All, Not sure if this matters...I use Perl 5.10 on a windows operating system. Actually, there are two versions of perl on my box. The 5.10 with activeperl and 5.8 with the oracle instance. I point everything to the 5.10 version.

Problem:

I downloaded the files for extproc_perl. When I try to execute the MakeFile.pl script, I get the following errors:

"You are using a shared libperl. Good."

"Threads-enabled Perl is not supported in this version."

Can someone help me under stand 'threads-enabled perl'. Is there a way to get around this issue. Thanks cocl05

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Re: MakeFile.pl error for extproc_perl
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2010 at 16:34 UTC

    It seems that the extension you're installing is not compatible with threads. On Windows, most Perls come with threads enabled unless you compile it yourself. Note that on Windows, threads and fork emulation are implemented through the same mechanism, so by disabling threads, you'll likely also lose fork().

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      Can you point me to some documentation that might help me disable threads without affecting fork...or maybe some documentation on how to compile it myself and disable threads? I appreciate your feedback.

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