Bug #50302 for JSON-DWIW: Fails with Strawberry Perl

Wed Oct 07 13:11:10 2009 mrobinson [...] thelittleclinic.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Fails with Strawberry Perl
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:10:38 -0500
To:	<bug-JSON-DWIW [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Michael Robinson" <mrobinson [...] thelittleclinic.com>

This package does not install on Strawberry Perl (Windows) ... which is a "durn shame" that I wish you'd fix. "make_config.c" requests "sys/wait.h" which does not exist. Also, in the function "do_system_with_redirect" the identifier "F_DUPFD" is undefined. This looks like a very nice package, and I think that it would be very helpful for those of us who have to do server-side work (like it or not) on windoze.

Thu Oct 15 11:26:27 2009 dowens [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I don't have access to a windoze box with a compiler set up. I'll try to get one set up. On Wed Oct 07 13:11:10 2009, mrobinson@thelittleclinic.com wrote: Show quoted text

> This package does not install on Strawberry Perl (Windows) ... which is > a "durn shame" that I wish you'd fix. > > > > "make_config.c" requests "sys/wait.h" which does not exist. Also, in > the function "do_system_with_redirect" the identifier "F_DUPFD" is > undefined. > > > > This looks like a very nice package, and I think that it would be very > helpful for those of us who have to do server-side work (like it or not) > on windoze. >

Thu Oct 15 11:26:27 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Feb 12 10:17:40 2010 csjewell [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Strawberry provides the compiler - so all you have to do is get the Windows box. And in that regard, you don't even really need to do that - just contact adamk@cpan.org and he can get you a login on the "msopensource" machines that you (because you're a CPAN author) can use. (You'll need to install "rdesktop" on *nix/MacOSX machines in order to get to them.)

Fri Feb 12 10:53:58 2010 mrobinson [...] thelittleclinic.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	RE: [rt.cpan.org #50302] Fails with Strawberry Perl
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:52:34 -0600
To:	<bug-JSON-DWIW [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Michael Robinson" <mrobinson [...] thelittleclinic.com>

I apologize that I have simply not had the time to pursue this patch myself. (The half-owner of the company is now the full-owner of the company and that has meant a lot of work for I.T. lately.) I would expect that it should be more-or-less a matter of looking at other existing CPAN packages of a similar nature which are known to be more cross-platform friendly, and "see what they did." Various other existing packages which necessarily also refer to "sys/wait.h" must -also- have "#ifdefs" (et seq.) which enclose other variations. Finding what to do, then, would genuinely be a matter of "finding." And, having said that, I apologize once more for being up to my earlobes in alligators. Show quoted text

-----Original Message----- From: Curtis Jewell via RT [mailto:bug-JSON-DWIW@rt.cpan.org] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 9:18 AM To: Michael Robinson Subject: [rt.cpan.org #50302] Fails with Strawberry Perl <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=50302 > Strawberry provides the compiler - so all you have to do is get the Windows box. And in that regard, you don't even really need to do that - just contact adamk@cpan.org and he can get you a login on the "msopensource" machines that you (because you're a CPAN author) can use. (You'll need to install "rdesktop" on *nix/MacOSX machines in order to get to them.)

Wed Feb 17 02:03:41 2010 dowens [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Awesome! I've sent a request for a msopensource login. Meanwhile, I'll poke around to find out what other folks are doing about the sys/wait.h issue on Windows. Thanks! On Fri Feb 12 10:17:40 2010, CSJEWELL wrote: Show quoted text

> Strawberry provides the compiler - so all you have to do is get the > Windows box. > > And in that regard, you don't even really need to do that - just

contact Show quoted text

> adamk@cpan.org and he can get you a login on the "msopensource"

machines Show quoted text

> that you (because you're a CPAN author) can use. (You'll need to

install Show quoted text

> "rdesktop" on *nix/MacOSX machines in order to get to them.)