ExtUtils::Liblist fails to account for .dll.a lib_ext used by (e.g.) official GTK+ win32 build
[email protected] (Alex Kapranoff) Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:42:27 +0400
| Newsgroups | perl.makemaker |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
So here's the patch to ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm to add support for .dll.a libs. With it I can now successfully build the gtk-perl stack (all the chain from Glib including Pango and Cairo) on Strawberry perl. -- Alex Kapranoff.
patch-Kid.pm
(application/x-perl, 571 B)
--- Kid.pm.orig 2009-07-07 17:49:06.000000000 +0400
+++ Kid.pm 2009-08-09 18:30:24.000000000 +0400
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@
$_ .= $libext if !/\Q$libext\E$/i;
my $secondpass = 0;
+ my $secondpass2 = 0;
LOOKAGAIN:
# look for the file itself
@@ -346,6 +347,11 @@
}
}
+ # do another pass with lib & .dll if they used -l
+ if (!$found_lib and $thislib =~ /^-l/ and $GC and !$secondpass2++) {
+ goto LOOKAGAIN if s/^(.*)$libext$/lib$1.dll$libext/;
+ }
+
# give up
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."No library found for $thislib\n"