Re: Help getting XML::Xerces installed on cygwin

Hi Reinhold,

Thanks for pointing out your fixes. It helps to have solutions like
these archived in the list.

Reinhold May <[email protected]> writes:

>    The second problem was resolved by  looking  into  the  final
> command and finding 'gcc' as the  compiler  which  can't  really
> work for the C++ code in Xerces-C.  'gcc' is hardcoded into  the
> perl script 'perlld' in '/bin'.  So the quick  fix  is  to  just
> change the following:
> 
>    --- perlld.old  2004-03-19 20:44:04.135435200 +0000
>    +++ perlld      2004-03-19 20:43:36.906281600 +0000
>    @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>     #
> 
>     # these are pretty mandatory
>    -my $CC = 'gcc';
>    +my $CC = 'g++';

Huh... On linux this is not important because gcc is just a wrapper
that calls g++ for linking if the code is C++.

Glad to see these were not issues specific to Xerces.

Cheers,
jas.