From: csoelle AT sghms DOT ac DOT uk (Christian Soeller)
Subject: Re: Perl 5.004
4 Jun 1997 13:15:42 -0700
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Original-CC: John Tobey <jtobey AT user1 DOT channel1 DOT com>, cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
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John Tobey <jtobey AT user1 DOT channel1 DOT com> writes:

> 
> I, too, have been spending my weekends trying to build perl 5.004 on
> cygwin 95.
> 
> > I applied the patch that Chris Faylor kindly sent me.
> 
> Same here.  The patch helped, but the big issue remains: DLLs do not
> get dynaloaded.  btw, Chris Faylor used NT.  He tells me the XS
> modules do load properly.
> 

Could this be related to the problems reported building DLLs under
Win95 for X11? There the win95 generated DLLs seemed to contain
garbage characters due to a possible error in fseek, etc while
the WinNT generated DLLs seemed to work.


  Christian
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