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Id: 24098
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: ExtUtils-MakeMaker
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Requestors: theultramage [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 6.31
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  Tue Dec 26 08:01:59 2006 theultramage [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: ExtUtils::MM_Win32 produces incomplete makefiles for VS2005
VS2005 added a mechanism to cope with dll hell by using manifest files (either embedded or external). These inform the system which dll to pick. But for some reason perl doesn't work with the external type and the built modules just won't load - missing msvcr80.dll (breaking everything in the process). To allow windows users to build dll files properly, this action has to be performed: mt.exe -manifest $@.manifest -outputresource:$@;#2 (I added this as a hack after the $(LD) step in dynamic_lib; VS2005 detection is needed for a proper fix, of course)
  Tue Dec 26 13:19:54 2006 theultramage [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
From: theultramage [...] gmail.com
A followup: Microsoft describes what to do in detail http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235591(VS.80).aspx
  Fri May 25 03:44:24 2007 shay [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Tue Dec 26 08:01:59 2006, theultramage wrote: Show quoted text
> VS2005 added a mechanism to cope with dll hell by using manifest files > (either embedded or external). These inform the system which dll to > pick. But for some reason perl doesn't work with the external type and > the built modules just won't load - missing msvcr80.dll (breaking > everything in the process). > > To allow windows users to build dll files properly, this action has to > be performed: > mt.exe -manifest $@.manifest -outputresource:$@;#2 > > (I added this as a hack after the $(LD) step in dynamic_lib; VS2005 > detection is needed for a proper fix, of course)
A change like this has already been made in bleadperl (core change #29266): http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/29266 and has also been incorporated into what will be the next version of ExtUtils-MakeMaker already: http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/trunk/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
  Fri May 25 03:44:25 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jun 28 17:11:34 2007 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'