Re: Parrot on VMS

[email protected] ("John E. Malmberg") Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:55:43 -0500
Newsgroups perl.vmsperl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10/26/2012 6:04 AM, Vorländer, Martin wrote:
>
> Parrot wants dynamic PMCs as dynamically loadable files, i.e. shared images.
> Building of these already works, but of course a lib$find_image_symbol won't
> find any symbols (as I don't yet have a SYMBOL_VECTOR).
>
> So I'm now diving into the process that converts a .PMC file into a .C file
> to see where I can get a list of symbols from to create an options file to
> link against. That seemed easier (and more portable) than pulling apart
> object files.

If parrot has been ported to Microsoft Windows, there should be a 
procedure that extracts the symbol names for creating the DLLs.

Regards,
-John
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