I don't know if this is the correct area to report this but Parrot currently is
not building on Win32 using MSVC 2008. I haven't built it in a while but it
used to build quite easily.
I tracked the problem down to method _generate_guard_macro_name in
compilers/opsc/src/Ops/Emitter.pm. The line:
my @path := split('/', $filename);
...does not work as expected since the $filename passed in has backslashes as
directory separators and not forward slashes. I know that this is a "Win32"
thing but it is usually handled in other places. I hacked
_generate_guard_macro_name so that the backslash is treated like the forward
slash and are replaced with underscores in the guard name. Without this hack
the build chokes on the backslashes in the guard name of the header files
produced by ops2c for the dynoplibs like obscure_ops.h. With the hack, the
build completes and running "nmake test" produces no errors.
BTW, googling "Parrot report defect" does not bring up anything useful :(; what
is the correct process for reporting defects? If more information is
required, I'd be happy to report it.
Mark Solinski
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