Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25.

Tue Jul 24 15:48:00 GMT 2007

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mallas" <pmallas@rsmas.miami.edu>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Trying to build (perl) Inline::CPP-0.25.
>I ran into a similar problem recently - the standard sort of c++ references 
>were not being found. It turns out that the linker I was calling was ld2, 
>a script that called another script perlld (in /usr/bin), where I found 
>this:
>> # these are pretty mandatory
> my $CC = 'gcc';
> my $EXPORT_ALL = 1;
>> I edited this script and replaced gcc with g++. I don't know if this was a 
> good idea or not, but it seemed to fix the problem.
>
I personally think this was an *excellent* idea. It certainly works for me, 
too.
I had run:
-------------------------
Rob@desktop2 ~/comp/Inline-CPP-0.25
$ perl -V:ld
ld='ld2';
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and wondered about that. You're suggested amendment (apart from fixing the 
problem) is also in keeping with my "native" (MinGW) build of Windows perl 
5.8 which reports:
--------------------------
C:\>perl -V:ld
ld='g++';
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Dammit ... I should've known ... I've struck similar problems with MinGW 
builds of perl that want to set 'ld' to 'gcc' instead of 'g++'.
So ... it *is* a Cygwin Perl bug after all ? (That's a question, not an 
assertion :-)
Thanks Paul.
Cheers,
Rob 
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