I had a deeper look into the ActiveState PPM failures, and they're not related to MSVC6 as I assumed on lucy-user. It would be really nice to make the PPM build work.
32-bit, Perl 5.12 and 5.14 -------------------------- http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.12/1200/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120710T215703.txt http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.14/1400/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120711T022317.txt This is the same problem that was reported here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucy-user/201109.mbox/%3c662C6E983E7C4874833424B8642F2779@teddy%3e No idea what's going on there but note that the "/TP" flag (C++ mode) won't appear on the command line because it should be in the ".ccs" compiler script. 32-bit, Perl 5.16 ----------------- http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.16/1600/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120816T225009.txt "Can't locate object method "new" via package "Lucy::Build::SUPER" at buildlib/Lucy/Build.pm line 143." Strange⦠64-bit, Perl 5.12, 5.14 and 5.16 -------------------------------- http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x64/5.12/1200/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120710T212100.txt http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x64/5.14/1400/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120711T021911.txt http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x64/5.16/1600/L/LO/LOGIE/Lucy-0.3.2.d/log-20120813T075017.txt Charmonizer build fails with "unresolved external symbol __security_check_cookie" I think this is related to the following bug that I reported to ActiveState: http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=93797 Nick
