hello everyone, work on this perl quest: https://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/53d39f40b587a43011000143
trying to get cygwin64 perl blead smoking. still working my way through that tutorial with cygwin. configure told me: Found -ldl. What libraries to use? [-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lgdbm_compat] used the command: gcc -o try -O3 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fwrapv -fno-str ict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--export-all-s ymbols -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib try.c -lg dbm -ldb -ldl -lgdbm_compat ./try and I got the following output: c:/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-w64-m ingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -ldl collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status I started a cygwin64 terminal, surprised by the mingw32 tools being used from strawberry. Anyways, I changed the answer (-ldl) to -lgdbm -ldb -lgdbm_compat; and configure now tells me compile OK but produced no output. no makefiles generated. I'm assuming I am getting things mixed up with strawberry mingw and cygwin mingw tools mismatch...but not sure. thanks for any thoughts or suggestions! --dave http://dave.thehorners.com/tech-talk/programming/532-perl-troubleshooting-and-debugging-hanging-camels
