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Id: 48027
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: PAR-Packer

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Severity: Critical
Broken in:
  • 0.991
  • 0.992_01
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: MinGW main.o:main.c:(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `Perl_get_context'
ActivePerl-5.8.9.825-MSWin32-x86-288577 with 'ppm install MinGW' same as bug reported http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2009/04/msg4019.html ... Note (probably harmless): No library found for perl58.lib ... gcc -c -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -I"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" main.c g++ main.o my_par_pl.o win32.coff -s -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" -o par.exe solution is to edit PAR-Packer-0.992_01/myldr/Makefile.PL --- Makefile.PL-old 2009-07-20 11:03:17.031250000 -0700 +++ Makefile.PL 2009-07-20 11:10:39.046875000 -0700 @@ -122,8 +122,15 @@ } +my $perl58lib = ""; +if($ENV{ACTIVEPERL_MINGW} and $Config{cf_email}=~/ActiveState.com/i){ + chomp $pldflags; + $perl58lib = "-l$Config{libperl}"; + $perl58lib =~ s/\.lib$//; +} my $cflags = "$ccdebug$warn$pccflags"; -my $ldflags = "$lddebug$pldflags"; +my $ldflags = "$lddebug$pldflags $perl58lib"; + my $static_ldflags = $ldflags; $static_ldflags =~ s/\s+-lperl\s+/ /g; its kind of a kludge, but both strawberryperl and activeperl set ACTIVEPERL_MINGW, and adding perl58lib would break strawberryperl
I just applied the supplied patch. Kludge or not, we're not magically growing a better fix. Cheers and thanks, Steffen