| Subject: | Attempt to compile with MSVC |
ActiveState perl v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 813
I'm trying to compile Curses.pm under MSVC with pdcurses library.
I propose to add link to pdcurses (http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/) to
'INSTALL'.
I've encountered several problems with it:
1. 'pdcurses.h' does not exists, only 'curses.h'. Renamed it.
2. 'curses.h' also defines chtype and attr_t. Commented out there.
3. 'curses.h' also defines SCREEN. Commented out in 'CursesTyp.h'.
4. `perl demo` fails
Curses function 'TIESCALAR' called with too few arguments at
C:\cpan\Curses-1.14\blib\lib/Curses.pm line 82.
Compilation failed in require at demo line 11.
5. I propose to add load test. Attached is '00-load.t', which should be
put in 't/' directory.
6. `nmake cdemo` fails because it expects .o extension.
'Makefile.PL.patch' corrects this.
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Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net
| Subject: | Makefile.PL.patch |
--- Makefile.PL.dist Sat Jun 3 00:18:48 2006
+++ Makefile.PL Sat Sep 23 01:54:45 2006
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@
my ($this, %args) = @_;
my $echo = $OSNAME eq 'VMS' ? 'write sys$output' : 'echo';
+ my $objext = $OSNAME eq 'MSWin32' ? 'obj' : 'o';
my $mf = <<EOM;
CursesDef.h: c-config.h Makefile.PL list.syms
\$(PERL) test.syms $args{COMPONENTS}
@@ -403,7 +404,7 @@
c-config.h:
@ $echo "You need to make a c-config.h. See the INSTALL document.";
@ exit 1
-cdemo: cdemo.o c-config.h
+cdemo: cdemo.$objext c-config.h
EOM
if ($OSNAME eq 'VMS') {
| Subject: | 00-load.t |
#!perl
use Test::More tests => 1;
BEGIN {
use_ok( 'Curses' );
}
diag( "Testing Curses $Curses::VERSION, Perl $]" );