# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay
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for some time now, parrot has been segfaulting on windows. this is a
notoriously tricky bug to find, and jonathan, chromatic, and i have
spend a good amount of time hunting it down, to no avail. i *think*
it's a problem with recycling RetContinuation PMCs, but i have more
work to do.
in order to get languages/perl6 to build on windows for the 0.4.13
release, i'll patch the perl6 makefile as below:
Index: config/makefiles/root.in
===================================================================
--- config/makefiles/root.in (revision 19135)
+++ config/makefiles/root.in (working copy)
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@
PMCS = perl6str perl6bool
PMC_SOURCES = $(PMCDIR)/perl6str.pmc
+# [rtXXXXX]: [BUG] parrot segfaults when building perl6 on windows with msvc
+# added -G flag in order to work around segfault
+PARROT_ARGS = -G
+
# the default target
perl6.pbc: $(PARROT) $(PGE_LIBRARY)/Perl6Grammar.pir $(SOURCES)
- $(PARROT) $(PGE_LIBRARY)/Perl6Grammar.pir \
+ $(PARROT) $(PARROT_ARGS) $(PGE_LIBRARY)/Perl6Grammar.pir \
--output=src/parser/grammar_gen.pir \
src/parser/grammar_rules.pg src/parser/grammar_optok.pg
$(PARROT) $(TGE_DIR)/tgc.pir --output=src/PAST/Grammar_gen.pir
src/PAST/Grammar.tg
i'll update the repo as soon as i have a ticket number, and respond to
this ticket with the revision.
~jerry
