There was talk on the Perl6 lists today about name clobbering and what should be done regarding naming for .so/.dll files compiled from XS. One of the quick answers was to add a version number to the filename of the shared library. How would one go about doing this today with Inline? Inline::MakeMaker will name the associated Win32 DLL for Foo::Bar::Baz.pm Baz.DLL. Is there any way to make that Foo-Bar-Baz.dll, Baz-0.01.dll, or Foo-Bar-Baz-0.01.dll? Dan Sugalski writes: > FWIW, the interpreter will treat the following > three things (Barring changes from Larry) as > composing a unique identifier: > > Module Name > Author > Version And Bart Lateur's response: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:24:45 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: > > > For example, with simple file names, it's impossible to > > run a perl 5.005 and a perl 5.6 both using XML::Parser, > > at the same time. > > It's also impossible, on Win32, to use XML::Parser and > (an XS version of) HTML::Parser at the same time, because > the DLL is called "Parser.dll" for both. > > >This came up on comp.lang.perl.misc once, and Ilya Z. > >then wrote, IIRC, that there's no reason why the DLL > >(if I may call it this way) should have a name identical > >to the module name. His example was that on his port, > >for OS/2, he added a (machine generated) versioning > >string. > > I looked, and found that message back on groups.google.com. > > http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=8sverk%244k3%241%40charm.magnus.ac s.ohio-state.edu > > In case the URL got corrupted in the mail, go to > "advanced search", <http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search>, > and search for message with ID > <8sverk$4k3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
