Re: windows binary?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Tom Cross wrote:

> I've been playing around a bit with perl-GTK2 (love it BTW) and was 
> just
> handed a project which SCREAMS for perl-GTK2 but on win32.  I know 
> there
> are plans on releasing win32 binaries with 1.00 release.  I'm just
> wondering if there is somewhere I can get a preliminary package to 
> start
> testing with?

erm...  a technicality: likely not *with* the 1.00 release, but there 
will be win32 binaries of 1.00.

<call for help>
is there anybody who has experience creating activestate PPM packages 
from XS modules?
</call for help>

i have had no success creating binary PPM packages of the modules on 
win32.  the last time i tried was a month or two ago, and the results 
were that i could create a set of PPMs that looked okay but failed to 
install correctly.  i have no idea what was wrong, and haven't had the 
time to mess with it since.

gavin was looking at making an installer-type binary dist, but the 
dropline gtk binaries for 2.2.x had lots and lots of symbols that 
appeared to be compiled in, but missing from the exports list, and 
therefore not available at link time; this caused some extreme pain and 
suffering, which caused him to give up.  the 2.4.x binaries i grabbed 
the other day appear to have fixed most of those missing symbols, and 
have instead a new set.  :-(  but, anyway, gavin -- interested in 
having another go at it?

marc told me he had no problem using tml's gtk binaries with stuff 
straight from gtk2-perl's cvs (i.e., none of the patching i have to do 
with the dropline binaries).  i haven't tried this, mostly because of 
inertia and lack of time.

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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>