Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-21 Thread Reini Urban
Robert May schrieb: Reini Urban wrote: Jeremy White sagte: [summary] MinGW build of Win32::GUI with ActiveState perl works with no binary compatibility issues. Just a PAR from the PAR ppm does not work for Win32::GUI. You'd need to compile your own PAR from CPAN, esp. with the latest fixes.

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-20 Thread Robert May
Glenn Linderman wrote: [snipped conversation on the merits of MinGW, VC++ 6.0 and VC++ 7.0 (aka .net) I believe there are some library changes and such that cause VC++ 6.0 and 7.0 and .net to require different versions of the libraries... and since ActiveState is compiled with 6.0 that it is

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-19 Thread Robert May
Glenn Linderman wrote: On approximately 6/19/2005 11:29 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Robert May: Glenn Linderman wrote: Sorry, I was gone for a week or so. I have MS VC++ 6.0 and know how to build the package, but not the whole process for release. Would that st

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-19 Thread Robert May
Reini Urban wrote: Jeremy White sagte: [summary] MinGW build of Win32::GUI with ActiveState perl works with no binary compatibility issues. Just a PAR from the PAR ppm does not work for Win32::GUI. You'd need to compile your own PAR from CPAN, esp. with the latest fixes. Cygwin Win32::

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-19 Thread Robert May
Glenn Linderman wrote: Sorry, I was gone for a week or so. I have MS VC++ 6.0 and know how to build the package, but not the whole process for release. Would that still be helpful? (especially regarding the PAR issue?) I only have Perl 5.8 installed though, and have never played with having

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

2005-06-14 Thread Robert May
Robert May wrote: OK. I've stuck up a PPM for ActiveState Perl 5.8 at http://www.robmay.me.uk/win32gui/ Thanks to Jez White there's now a PPM for ActiveState Perl 5.6 at the same location. Regards, Rob.

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-14 Thread Jeremy White
Is there anyone with a V5.6 Perl who would like to see if they can build a corresponding release candidate? Yeah, I'll have a go:) Cheers, jez.

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Johan Lindstr
At 20:41 2005-06-13, Robert May wrote: OK. I've stuck up a PPM for ActiveState Perl 5.8 at http://www.robmay.me.uk/win32gui/ Well, at least I can confirm that the bug concerning me the most, Perl crashing, seems to be fixed. /J

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Robert May
OK. I've stuck up a PPM for ActiveState Perl 5.8 at http://www.robmay.me.uk/win32gui/ It's a build from today's CVS head revision, after I checked in the last few fixes I had in my local repository. I made the following changes before building: - GUI.pm - changed $VERSION to be '1.01_01' (i.

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Reini Urban
Jeremy White sagte: >>Regarding that old binary compatibility thing: would a PPM built with >>MinGW work with ActiveState Perl, or only under Cygwin? > > Yes it would work with ActiveState Perl (there should be no compatibility > issues). I've been using PerlApp with MinGW built modules for a while

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Jeremy White
Regarding that old binary compatibility thing: would a PPM built with MinGW work with ActiveState Perl, or only under Cygwin? Yes it would work with ActiveState Perl (there should be no compatibility issues). I've been using PerlApp with MinGW built modules for a while now (including win32-gui

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Johan Lindstrom
At 18:45 2005-06-12, Robert May wrote: I was going to mail you off-list, as I was playing with the MinGW build last week to try to get the size down, and I succeeded in reducing the size of my GUI.dll for the current head build from 3104 KB down to 979 KB (which is only 100k or so bigger than t

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-13 Thread Jeremy White
We need to agree a version number for the next release. I would propose 1.01 - I think that we should be using a 2-digit second part of the version number to be CPAN friendly (See perldoc perlmodstyle), and don't see that there's enough change to justify anything other than incrementing the min

Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-12 Thread Robert May
To create the HTML docs, I run: perl dodoc.pl perl dohtml.pl in Win32-GUI\docs directory - although I've no idea how these files would be included in the PPM:) Thanks - I was a bit confused by the fact that dodoc.pl seems to have options for building html too. I've got a PPM built from my

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-12 Thread Jeremy White
I did the following to my Makefile: (1) remove -g from LDDLFLAGS (2) remove -g -O2 from CCFLAGS (3) change -O2 to -Os in OPTIMIZE The '-g' is the biggest culprit, which adds huge amounts of extra stuff to allow debuggers (and particularly gdb) to run well with the code. The '-Os' optimises for

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-12 Thread Robert May
Jez, I was going to mail you off-list, as I was playing with the MinGW build last week to try to get the size down, and I succeeded in reducing the size of my GUI.dll for the current head build from 3104 KB down to 979 KB (which is only 100k or so bigger than the VC build of the 1.0 source).

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-11 Thread Jeremy White
In short, can we please release a new version of Win32::GUI in the near future? I would be happy to test a release candidate to make sure it works with TGL. I dropped a mail to Laurent to see if he could do a build a week or so ago - but no reply. Mingw produces larger dll files than the MS c

Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon? (was: CVS Commits - bug fixes and enhancements)

2005-06-11 Thread Johan Lindstr
At 21:10 2005-05-25, Robert May wrote: Jez White has kindly committed a set of changes that have been accumulating in my workspace. Details below: I will post a further message (to the users list only) about the Coolmenu changes mentioned below. -snip- - GUI.pm (Fix for Richedit crash. Tra