Wed Jun 06 21:21:02 2012: Request 55660 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by bulk88.
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: [PATCH] Partial win64 support for Win32::API
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: COSIMO
Requestors: r...@cpan.org, sbenn...@accelrys.com, steven.ba...@amd.com
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=55660 >
On Wed Mar 17 10:09:53 2010, sbenn...@accelrys.com wrote:
> The attached three patches (against Win32-API-0.59) implement initial
> support for 64-bit Windows in Win32-API.
>
> I didn't attempt to
> port Win32::API::Callback. It looks like considerably more effort
> than Win32::API itself, and as our application doesn't need it I
> couldn't justify the paid time to spend on it. This is, however,
> sufficient for Win32::API tests to pass against a 64-bit ActivePerl
> 5.8.9.
>
> At present, only MSVC++ toolchains will work, as its
> assembly dialect is different from GNU. I don't have a gcc-based
> build of Perl to work with to port it, but it should only require a
> straightforward translation of call_asm_x64_msvc.asm into
> call_asm_x64_gnu.asm.
>
> The required changes to Makefile.PL are
> also somewhat hackish, purely because I don't know of a better way
> to detect what architecture we're targeting.
>
> Accelrys Limited
> (http://accelrys.com)
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> Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WN, UK
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Your (IDK if you will get this from CPAN's web interface) asm is broken.
RSI register is non-volatile.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77677
