Well I hope there are some interested parties out there for this. The new and improved "getting started" guide should be ready in pod by Thursday. I have added more content and tried to incorporate the suggestions that everyone gave to me. The document is growing as I learn more. I have translated the document several times, but when I want to add more content I go back to the original format because I find writing in pod so distasteful.
Is there a module or a script out there that will let me write in "freestyle pod" (allowing indentation and reasonable blank line placement) and translate it to pod? Just wondering: What would another documentation style have to provide to make it an acceptable replacement for pod? On a side note. If you replace the current libparrot_def.in file with this (see listing below). The dll (win32) built with 'make shared' will make the t/src tests pass (make sure libparrot.dll is in the path). The majority of the tests pass. Some say that they fail, but on closer inspection, the output and the expected output are the same. I have verified this several times by compiling the test code myself. I am left with the conclusion that the perl testing modules might be malfunctioning somehow. I am currently looking at them. Thanks, Erik LIBRARY libparrot DESCRIPTION 'Parrot Interpreter' EXPORTS Parrot_new Parrot_init Parrot_setflag Parrot_setwarnings Parrot_readbc Parrot_loadbc Parrot_runcode Parrot_destroy Parrot_debug Parrot_disassemble Parrot_DynOp_core_${MAJOR}_${MINOR}_${PATCH} internal_exception intlist_new intlist_get intlist_push intlist_pop intlist_assign intlist_unshift intlist_shift intlist_length Parrot_sprintf_c string_to_cstring pmc_new