Re: Gtk-Perl on cygwin?

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp familiehaase de>]

Hallo Paolo,

Am 2001-11-06 um 22:40 schriebst du:

> > I'm trying to get Gtk-Perl to install under cygwin (on Windows 2000).  I've
> > got Cygwin, Perl, X, Gnome and Glade all running, but I can't seem to
> > compile Gtk-Perl. I think I'm having linking problems of some sort.
> [...]
[...]
> >     xs/GdkImlib.o(.text+0x36):GdkImlib.c: undefined reference to
> > `newSVMiscRef'
> [...]
> > These appear to be symbols that are within Gtk-Perl itself (and not in some
> > missing external library or something).  I wonder if it's the way libraries
> > are built under cygwin (i.e. via dllwrap)?

> The undefined symbols are actually defined in the Gtk subcomponent
> and resolved at runtime when that is loaded.
> Could you check in the docs if in cygwin it's possible to create the
> dll with undefined symbols (maybe a dllwrap command line flag or
> something like that), it may just work if you enable that.

No way, it isn't possible to create dynamic libraries with undefined
symbols on windows in general.

> Or you can try adding to the command that links the submodule the path
> to the Gtk submodule itself (try it in a console, we may worry how to do
> that with MakeMaker when/if it actually works).


Gerrit
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