Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl

2015-01-11 Thread sisyphus1
-Original Message- From: bulk88 Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 4:16 PM To: module-authors@perl.org ; perl5-port...@perl.org Subject: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl ActivePerl in 5.16 and before had code to build XS modules with dmake/mingw/gcc

Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl

2015-01-11 Thread sisyphus1
-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

Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl

2015-01-11 Thread Steve Hay
On 9 January 2015 at 10:40, bulk88 wrote: > sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: >> If different runtimes are used (as might happen with your other-way-about >> configuration) then you can run into problems - eg when a handle that has >> been created by one runtime gets passed to the other runtime (wh

Re: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl

2015-01-09 Thread bulk88
sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: bulk88 Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 4:16 PM To: module-authors@perl.org ; perl5-port...@perl.org Subject: name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl ActivePerl in 5.16 and before had code to build XS

name for a Module to build XS with Visual C on a core Mingw GCC Perl

2015-01-08 Thread bulk88
ActivePerl in 5.16 and before had code to build XS modules with dmake/mingw/gcc, while the perl core was compiled with Visual C. Going the other way, Visual C extensions with a GCC core has never been done. I've managed to get 1 XS module to compile and run with a VC XS DLL and a GCC Perl inter