Richard Kandarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone build statically linked xsubs on MSWin32?
Very unlikely - DLLs are the Win32 way of doing things and that maps
well to dynamic extensions.
>
>I have found three problems with the Makefile.aperl created by MakeMaker 4.48:
>
>1. $Config::Config{libperl} is not used to set macros so macros which
>should be defined perl56.lib end up being defined libperl.lib.
>
>2. MAP_STATIC (and some other stuff having to do with extralibs) is
>expanded on the Command line so that when using ActiveState perl the
>command line gets too big, and NMAKE.EXE bombs.
So we need a Win32 specific version which uses the tmp file trick(s).
>
>3. perlmain.c will not compile using M$ Visual C++.
Why not?
>
>4. Many extralibs.ld do not exist (and are most likely of no use anyway)
>but MakeMaker makes the link dependent on them as if there needs to be an
>extralibs.ld for every *.lib found.
>
>Could it be that no one builds statically linked xsubs on MSWin32 because a
>perl built with libc.lib and without the /MD switch is brain damaged?
Certainly a libc.lib perl has no hope of doing threads, and hence no hope
of emulating fork. (But an embedded perl will not be fork() ing anyway.)
Otherwise it should more-or-less work - but there
were/are bugs in libc.lib which normal perl works round.
>Or is
>it that a perl built with libc.lib and without the /MD switch brain damaged
>because no one is interested in statically linked xsubs on MSWin32?
Some of that as well.
>
>The answer to this is very important to me.
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Richard Kandarian
>http://www.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/fonelink.pl/085598
>
>Any opinions stated in this message are mine and not expressed on behalf of
>any other individual or entity unless explicitly noted otherwise. As for
>the links at the very end, my opinion is that they are interesting.
>
>UNIX is software. M$ Windows is hardware implemented in software.
>
>When M$ says 'embrace and extend', what does that bring to mind?
>A huge boa constrictor?
>
>Save the world from M$ tyranny - embrace and extend LINUX before M$ does.
>
>http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/top10.html
>http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/16/ackerman-b.html
>http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/12/fallows.htm
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