From:	Sisyphus	Date:	Wed Apr 16 03:55:10 2008
Subject:	Re: Win32-IPC-1.06 fails to define INFINITE

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher J. Madsen" <perl@cjmweb.net>
To: <libwin32@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:22 PM
Subject: Win32-IPC-1.06 fails to define INFINITE


> Does anybody have any idea what could cause this?

Beats me - I can't reproduce the problem on a variety of perl builds.

According to what the tester provided, VC 7 is being used - but 'ccversion' 
is 12.00.8804 (which is VC 6, isn't it ?)

I wondered whether perhaps it might be related to the use of VC 7 (instead 
of the preferred VC 6) so I built the module on ActivePerl 5.8.8 (build 822) 
using VC 7.0 and it worked fine.

I also tested on perl 5.10 (built from CPAN source using VC 7.0) again using 
VC 7.0 as the compiler and that worked fine.

And I tested on perl 5.8.8 (built from CPAN source using MinGW) using the 
MinGW compiler ...  no problems.

(There are other perl builds I have that I didn't test.)

Basically, the only thing I can suggest is that you contact the tester.

The only failure I could get with your module (and I think tihs is unrelated 
to what the tester found) occurred when I tried to build on ActivePerl using 
the MinGW compiler and dmake. The 'dmake' process terminates with:

gcc -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED 
 -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS 
 -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing   -O2 
"-DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\"" 
"-DVERSION=\"1.06\"" -I"C:\_32\ap822\lib\CORE" -I"\include" -o 
"lib\Win32\IPC.o" "lib\Win32\IPC.c"
gcc:  : No such file or directory
error building dll file from 'lib\Win32\IPC.c' at 
C:/_32/ap822/site/lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/Windows.pm line 96.
dmake:  Error code 130, while making 'test'

Whether this is a bug in your module, or a bug in Module::Build, or a bug in 
ExtUtils::CBuilder (which is my hunch) or a bug in ActivePerl, is anybody's 
guess :-)

'gcc' is definitely in my path. (I might take a closer look at this at some 
stage.)

Cheers,
Rob