Re: MinGW Build

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Timm Murray wrote:

> I'm trying to build Gtk2-perl on MinGW.  I have a Perl compiled  
> with MinGW
> under "E:\perl-5.8.7", and MinGW itself and the Gtk2 libs are under  
> "E:
> \msys\1.0\mingw".
>
> It's being linked with the command below.  Note that it's linked  
> using g++
> because Perl itself (for some reason) is linked using g++ when  
> built with
> MinGW, and so all xs modules also get linked using g++.

[snip]

> But this gives these errors:
>
> ----
> xs/Gdk.o(.text+0x75):Gdk.c: undefined reference to `gperl_argv_new'
> xs/Gdk.o(.text+0x9a):Gdk.c: undefined reference to `gperl_argv_update'
> xs/Gdk.o(.text+0xa2):Gdk.c: undefined reference to `gperl_argv_free'
> xs/Gdk.o(.text+0x1d8):Gdk.c: undefined reference to `gperl_argv_new'
> <snip about 4000 more>
> ----
>
> And that's where I'm stuck.

Win32 does not allow unresolved symbols at link time.  The symbols  
you need are exported by the Glib.dll built by the Glib perl module;  
you need to find that dll and add it to the link command.  This is  
done for you with the MSVC toolchain by extra code in Gtk2/ 
Makefile.PL.  Poke around in that and you should find the necessary  
pieces.  Please post your solution, preferably as a patch, and we'll  
see about keeping this solved for future MinGW adventurers.


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