Hi, Is there a specific reason you want to build svk? I am curious because as far as I know SVK development was stopped last year due to its dependancy on SVN repository structure.
Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: "umage" <theultram...@gmail.com> To: <win32-vanilla@perl.org> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:15 AM Subject: strawberry perl subversion bindings > Hi, I'm attempting to build SVK using latest strawberry perl. It has an > external dependency on subversion perl bindings, and I'm encountering > issues. > > After hours of trying, I was unable to get a working installation - the > strawberry perl site does not seem to provide source code, and the > binary bundles do not provide perl headers/libs required to build perl > bindings. The only documentation on the site points to an outdated svk > wiki page which suggests using pre-built bindings from > subversion.tigris.org. But the subversion project stopped providing > bindings after being acquired and migrated to apache. They do link to > third-party sites, but the only one that provides bindings does so for a > single visual studio activeperl build, which has compatibility issues > with strawberry perl (judging from all the test errors I get). > > Strawberry perl's cpan also attempts to build its own bindigs by trying > to install Alien-SVN, however it fails because 1) it tries to run a .sh > script and a configure script, 2) it's not standalone and still requires > a lot of prerequisite crap, 3) refuses to build against sqlite and 4) > even if it did, there's still no perl headers/libs to build against. > > So I'm asking - could strawberry perl provide these bindings for every > strawberry perl release, either bundled, or as a separate install? >
