Re: mingw32 build feedback

Hi John,

On Nov 6, 2007 5:49 PM, John E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Question: Will SLRN_CONF_DIR accept "."  or "" to maintain prevous
> > behaviour?
>
> It may--- I have to review how it is currently used.

Looking at the source, it looks like "." will work, but "" will cause
slrnpull to look for "/slrnpull.conf"

> I am not too familiar with how dynamic linking works under windows.  I
> had the impression that dlls had to be on the executable path.  Also,
> slrn will eventually require an actual installed version of slang once
> the interpreter has been better integrated.

I'm not using the slang DLL because it makes like more complicated.
I statically link in slang and get a stand-alone executable.

> > Snag: while everything seems to run fine using an slrnpull spool, this
> > new version of slrn on Windows does not want to load Emmanuele Bassi's
> > latest identity.sl macro, but has no problem on Slackware.  It fails
> > in the first register_hook near the end of the file.  If I remove the
> > "1==", everything loads fine.  Other macros with similar register_hook
> > calls have no problem, only this one.  slrn does not spit out a
> > meaningful error message to narrow down the error, but if you send me
> > a patch with some debugging printfs or othe suggestions to get an
> > error message, I'll be happy to help you solve the problem since it
> > seems to not happen on linux.
>
> Look at my previous post.  There I suggested putting something like
>
>    open_log_file ("slang.log); _traceback = 1;
>
> at the top of the suspect file (identity.sl in this case).

Thanks for that.  The error I get is not very meaningful.
Here's the contents of "slang.log":

 Traceback: error
 .\identity-2.8.0.sl:548:<top-level>:Run-Time Error

Here's the offending lines in "identity.sl" (line 548 is the second
line):

 !if (1 == register_hook ("startup_hook","identity->retrieve_default"))
   error ("identity.sl: register_hook (startup_hook)");

Again, if I remove the "1 ==" , I get no error.  Strange.

R/T

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