[rt.cpan.org #131165] build does not succeed using gmake

[email protected] ("jkahrman via RT") Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:33:03 -0500

Newsgroups	perl.libwin32
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Tue Dec 10 19:33:02 2019: Request 131165 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by [email protected]
       Queue: Win32-API
     Subject: build does not succeed using gmake
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131165 >


We recently switched our build on Windows from nmake to gmake. The Makefile generated for Win32-API failed to build with the following error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'call_asm_x64_msvc.obj'
gmake[4]: *** [blib\arch\auto\Win32\API\API.dll] Error 1181

The obj file wasn't generated because '.asm' was not on the .SUFFIXES list. 'nmake' has it on the SUFFIXES list by default, but 'gmake' doesn't (at least our build of gmake).

By mangling the Makefile to include '.asm' on the'.SUFFIXES' list, the the build completed successfully using gmake.


$(PERL) -pi.orig -e "s/^\.SUFFIXES : /\.SUFFIXES : .asm /m" Win32-API/Makefile