-----Original Message-----
From: bulk88
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 9:40 PM
To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au
Cc: module-authors@perl.org ; Perl 5 Porters
Subject: Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC
Perl
From memory, Win32::SharedFileOpen was unusable if the compiler that
built it used a different runtime to that used by perl.
That would be a coding mistake that is easy to fix if you have all the
source code available.
Steve reports that the problem with Win32::SharedFileOpen no longer applies.
The only other time I struck this sort of issue was when trying to build the
GD module on an msvc7-built perl against a gd library that had been built
using mingw. It compiled ok, but kept crashing at runtime.
*You* might be able to easily fix that one, but *I* never did. (FAIK, that
might also have since been fixed - it was a few years ago.)
Anyway, you're obviously aware of the potential here - and on top of it
(which doesn't surprise me at all :-)
Cheers,
Rob
