[rt.cpan.org #48027] MinGW main.o:main.c:(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `Perl_get_context'

[noreply via RT]

Mon Jul 20 14:14:11 2009: Request 48027 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by noreply
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     Subject: MinGW main.o:main.c:(.text+0xe): undefined reference to
 `Perl_get_context'
   Broken in: 0.991, 0.992_01
    Severity: Critical
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: 
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48027 >


ActivePerl-5.8.9.825-MSWin32-x86-288577
with 'ppm install MinGW'

same as bug reported
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2009/04/msg4019.html

...
Note (probably harmless): No library found for perl58.lib
...
        gcc -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT
-DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO
-DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields
 -I"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" main.c
        g++ main.o my_par_pl.o win32.coff -s   -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -o
par.exe




solution is to edit PAR-Packer-0.992_01/myldr/Makefile.PL



--- Makefile.PL-old     2009-07-20 11:03:17.031250000 -0700
+++ Makefile.PL 2009-07-20 11:10:39.046875000 -0700
@@ -122,8 +122,15 @@
 }
 
 
+my $perl58lib = "";
+if($ENV{ACTIVEPERL_MINGW} and $Config{cf_email}=~/ActiveState.com/i){
+    chomp $pldflags;
+    $perl58lib = "-l$Config{libperl}";
+    $perl58lib =~ s/\.lib$//;
+}
 my  $cflags = "$ccdebug$warn$pccflags";
-my $ldflags = "$lddebug$pldflags";
+my $ldflags = "$lddebug$pldflags  $perl58lib";
+
 my $static_ldflags = $ldflags;
 
 $static_ldflags =~ s/\s+-lperl\s+/ /g;



its kind of a kludge, but both strawberryperl and activeperl set
ACTIVEPERL_MINGW, and adding perl58lib would break strawberryperl