Jan Dubois wrote: >On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> >> Here's what I came up with for a patch to account for two new >> symbols (Perl_sv_2iv_flags, Perl_newXS_flags) introduced in >> ActiveState perl for build 822 and later (these symbols were >> preventing the building of vim with dynamic support for perl). >> >> After patching, I tested building vim with dynamic support for >> ActiveState perl build 822 and an older build 810 -- on >> Windows. > > Note that if you build vim against 822, then you cannot use the > binary with perl58.dll from 810. If you build against 810, then > it will work with any build from 810 onwards. > >> What I have no clue about is what happens when someone tries to >> build vim with non-AS perl or with AS perl on non-Windows. >> Does non-AS perl also have these symbols? Are these symbols >> present in perl for non-Windows also? > > These symbols will be used by Perl 5.8.9, and also by Perl > 5.10.0. They are not specific to Perl on Windows. > > Therefore the conditional > > #if (ACTIVE_PERL >= 822) > > should be written more general like this: > > /* ActivePerl build 822 still identifies itself as 5.8.8 but > * already contains many of the changes from the upcoming > * Perl 5.8.9 release. > */ > #if (ACTIVEPERL_VERSION >= 822) > # define PERL589_OR_LATER > #endif > #if (PERL_REVISION == 5) && (PERL_VERSION == 8) && (PERL_SUBVERSION >= 9) > # define PERL589_OR_LATER > #endif > #if (PERL_REVISION == 5) && (PERL_VERSION >= 10)) > # define PERL589_OR_LATER > #endif > > And then later you just check for PERL589_OR_LATER > > #ifdef PERL589_OR_LATER > ... > #endif > >> --- Make_ming.mak Tue Aug 28 21:36:36 2007 >> + ifdef ACTIVE_PERL >> + CFLAGS += -DACTIVE_PERL=$(ACTIVE_PERL) >> + endif > > This part is not necessary. The ACTIVEPERL_VERSION preprocessor > symbol should already be set to the build number if you are > compiling against the headers from ActivePerl. Thanks Jan. Sorry for the multiple recent posts. I did find BuildInfo.h included by patchlevel.h
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