At 01:34 PM 5/17/2001 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>I've made some progress on this and now have a working miniperl. The
>problem I'm running into now is how to get access to the layer
>functions declared in perliol.h from the extensions that need them.
>Specifically, Encode, PerlIO::Scalar, and PerlIO::Via all treat these
>layer functions as services provided by the core, but on VMS, the
>core does not make them visible to dynamically linked extensions.
>
>One way of changing that would be (I think) to include perliol.h from
>perl.h and change all the declarations in perliol.h from extern to
>EXT. That would make the core dynamic library (pershr.exe shareable
>image) publish those functions as externally available entry points.
In one of the patches I sent off recently there's a change to gen_shrfls.pl
that extracts the symbols for the options file from the object library,
rather than parsing the preprocessed output of the compiler. You might want
to snag that and see if a small change might do what you need. (Yeah, it's
a lousy way to do it, but less lousy than the current way. Ultimately we
should parse the symbol files, but not this week...)
Dan
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