Hi Curtis, > B) wait until I can integrate the new toolchain libraries that kmx has > been working on for us - which will probably be about a week.
The new external bin libs are ready to be released at least with next strawberry build. Here is the list of proposed changes: 1) Reorganised zlib - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/650389/333164/libzlib-1.2.3-bin_20090819.zip - DLLs: zlib1.dll - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48671 2) Reorganised libiconv, libintl - http://strawberryperl.com/package/libiconv-08192009.zip - DLLs: libcharset1.dll, libiconv2.dll, libintl3.dll - the credits for this pack are yours - please remove *.la, *.def, *.alias from lib subdir - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48765 3) Rebuilt libxml2 - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/650397/333188/libxml2-2.7.3-bin_20090819.zip - DLLs: libxml2_.dll - more info (xml2/xslt): http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48576 4) NEW: libxslt - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/650394/333179/libxslt-1.1.24-bin_20090819.zip - DLLs: libexslt_.dll, libxslt_.dll - why? - XML::LibXSLT - more info (xml2/xslt): http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48576 5) NEW: openssl - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651158/333680/libopenssl-0.9.8k-bin_20090820.zip - DLLs: libeay32_.dll libssl32_.dll - why? - Crypt::SSLeay, Net::SSLeay - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48447 6) NEW: postrgres/libpq - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651196/333705/libpostgresql-8.4.0-bin_20090821.zip - DLLs: libpq_.dll - why? - DBD::Pg - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48447 - NOTE: missing kerberos/gssapi support 7) NEW: graphics libs (libjpeg, libgif, linpng, libtiff, libfreetype) - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651332/333799/libtiff-3.8.2-1-bin_20090821.zip - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651328/333787/libjpeg-6b-4-bin_20090821.zip - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651330/333793/libpng-1.2.37-bin_20090821.zip - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/651319/333776/libgif-4.1.4-1-bin_20090821.zip - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/652060/334193/libfreetype-2.3.5-1-bin_20090823.zip - DLLs: freetype6.dll, giflib4.dll, jpeg62.dll, libpng12.dll, libpng3.dll, libtiff3.dll - why? - Imager (required by MojoMojo) - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48759 8) NEW: Berkley DB - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Attachment/648921/332210/libdb-4.7.25-bin_20090817.zip - DLLs: none (I have decided to include just static *.a library) - why? - DB_File (required by Bio::Perl) - more info: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42167 It would be nice to include the libs above into some of the next betas as I would appreciate some feedback from more testers. -- kmx
