| Subject: | Devel::CheckLib 0.699_001 does not detect DLL lib |
This is on strawberry perl. The Perl OpenGL module links to the
freeglut.dll library directly without a corresponding .a (thanks
to some MinGW magic, I suppose). At any rate, the various
OpenGL libraries are detected:
p assert_lib( lib=>'opengl32')
0
p assert_lib( lib=>'glu32')
0
p assert_lib( lib=>'glut32')
0
because MinGW has a corresponding libXXX.a for them. (If I remove
the .a file then the OpenGL libraries fail too) Then when I check
for the FreeGLUT library (it is in perl/bin/freeglut.dll) I get:
p assert_lib( lib=>'freeglut')
Can't link/include 'freeglut'
This is true even when I put the include file in explicitly. It
seems that the failure must be occuring before the link since it
*will* link and even *works* on win32. The principle of least
surprise suggests that Devel::CheckLib would work here too---even
if it is a bit silly from the unix point of view that anyone would
have a runtime library without a link library...