RE: PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT and windows.h

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> Yes, I am confused. Please bear with me.

I suspect that you'll need to attach some complete example project
that exhibits the things you are talking about before somebody else
will try to reproduce/understand it.

Right now the barrier to helping you is quite high!

Cheers,
-Jan

> I need to adapt the makefile.pl from a module from CPAN so it can
> build with ActivePerl, and modified the file according to the
> makefile.pl for my own module. My reward was a spew of compilation
> errors from various header files in the Perl distribution.
>
> In my own makefile.pl I have for some reason shortcutted the CCFLAGS
> that comes with ActivePerl, so all those standard settings like -
> DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT are not present. And I get away with it.
>
> After some investigation I find that if I have
>
> #include <windows.h>
>
> before the #include of the Perl header files, I don't need all those
> defines for the module to compile. (Which I have to say is somewhat
> bewildering.)
>
> But just because it works, does not mean that it is best practice.
> Since PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT is defined in CCFLAGS, I guess that is
> what I should rely on.
>
> I appreciate any comment.