Bug #72024 for WWW-Curl: Problems generating the Curl package on Windows XP

Hello, I would like to share with you some difficulties I have to build this package on Windows XP 532 bits) If you can tell me where I'm wrong it would be great ! I'l try to give you all the details. I have Installed Perl (from ActivePerl-5.14.2.1402-MSWin32-x86-295342.msi) under C:\Perl I have installed Cygwin (Windows setup.exe) and Mingw (mingw-get-inst-20110802.exe) under C:\Cygwin and C:\MinGW I have downloaded curl-7.22.0-ssl-sspi-zlib-static-bin-w32 and installed the contents under c:\Curl I downloaded curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32.zip and unzipped the contents I downloaded and installed NMAKE from Microsoft All binaries have been added to the system $PATH Finally, I downloaded WWW-Curl-4.15.tar.gz and unzipped the contents I followed the instructions in the README.Win32 file : I changed the Makefile.PL according to the instructions : my @includes = qw('C:\\HOME\\DevPerl\\Downloads\\curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32\\includes'); my ($cflags,$lflags, $ldflags) = ('-I"C:\\MinGW\\include"', '-L"C:\\MinGW\\lib"','-lcurl -lcurldll'); I executed perl Makefile.PL and got a message about unsupported lisf form for open. After some Googling I found that someone suggested to modify one line : open(H_IN, "-|", "cpp", $curl_h) and $has_cpp++; was changed to open(H_IN, "-|", "cpp $curl_h") and $has_cpp++; (note that apparently it requires no spaces in $curl_h) I re-executed perl Makefile.PL, and got a Makefile C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\WWW-Curl-4.15.tar\WWW-Curl-4.15>perl Makefile.PL C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32\include Set up gcc environment - 4.5.2 'curl-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'curl-config' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. The version is Found curl.h in C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32\include/curl /curl.h Building curlopt-constants.c for your libcurl version Building Easy.pm constants for your libcurl version Building Share.pm constants for your libcurl version Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Note (probably harmless): No library found for Writing Makefile for WWW::Curl Writing MYMETA.yml I tried to run nmake, but it reported problems with missing curly braces. C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\WWW-Curl-4.15.tar\WWW-Curl-4.15>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755') " Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff' Stop. After a global substitute of {{@ARGV} with {@ARGV} I finally got a Makefile with no syntax error. I restarted nmake, but the link stoped claiming surprisely (the compilation of Curl.c seems to execute without error) that Curl.o is missing. C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\WWW-Curl-4.15.tar\WWW-Curl-4.15> nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. cp lib/WWW/Curl/Share.pm blib\lib\WWW\Curl\Share.pm cp lib/WWW/Curl/Form.pm blib\lib\WWW\Curl\Form.pm cp lib/WWW/Curl.pm blib\lib\WWW\Curl.pm cp lib/WWW/Curl/Easy.pm blib\lib\WWW\Curl\Easy.pm cp lib/WWW/Curl/Multi.pm blib\lib\WWW\Curl\Multi.pm C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\\xsubpp -typemap C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap Curl.xs > Curl.xsc && C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "mv" -- Curl.xsc Curl.c C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe -c -IC:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32\include -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -O2 -DVERSION=\"4.15\" -DXS_VERSION=\"4.15\" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" Curl.c Running Mkbootstrap for WWW::Curl () C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Command -e "chmod" -- 644 Curl.bs C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Mksymlists -e "Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"WWW::Curl\", 'DLBASE' => 'Curl', 'DL_FUNCS' => { }, 'FUNCLIST' => [], 'IMPORTS' => { }, 'DL_VARS' => []);" Set up gcc environment - 4.5.2 dlltool --def Curl.def --output-exp dll.exp C:\MinGW\bin\g++.exe -o blib\arch\auto\WWW\Curl\Curl.dll -Wl,--base-file -Wl,dll.base -mdll -L"C:\Perl\lib\CORE" Curl.o C:\Perl\lib\CORE\perl514.lib C:\MinGW\lib\libkernel32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libuser32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libgdi32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libwinspool.a C:\MinGW\lib\libcomdlg32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libadvapi32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libshell32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libole32.a C:\MinGW\lib\liboleaut32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libnetapi32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libuuid.a C:\MinGW\lib\libws2_32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libmpr.a C:\MinGW\lib\libwinmm.a C:\MinGW\lib\libversion.a C:\MinGW\lib\libodbc32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libodbccp32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libcomctl32.a C:\MinGW\lib\libmsvcrt.a dll.exp g++.exe: Curl.o: No such file or directory NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1' Stop. C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\WWW-Curl-4.15.tar\WWW-Curl-4.15> Effectively, the compilation did not generate any Curl.o I tried to reexecute the compilation directly at the command line level .. and got this : C:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\WWW-Curl-4.15.tar\WWW-Curl-4.15> C:/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe -c -IC:\HOME\DevPerl\Downloads\curl-7.22.0-devel-mingw32\include -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T -DHASATTRIBUTE -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields -O2 -DVERSION=\"4.15\" -DXS_VERSION=\"4.15\" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" Curl.c Curl.xs: In function 'XS_WWW__Curl__Easy_init': C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:500:20: error: 'PerlSIO_fread' undeclared (first use inthis function) C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:500:20: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:501:21: error: 'PerlSIO_fwrite' undeclared (first use in this function) Curl.xs: In function 'XS_WWW__Curl__Easy_duphandle': C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:500:20: error: 'PerlSIO_fread' undeclared (first use inthis function) C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:501:21: error: 'PerlSIO_fwrite' undeclared (first use in this function) Curl.xs: In function 'XS_WWW__Curl__Easy_setopt': C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:500:20: error: 'PerlSIO_fread' undeclared (first use inthis function) C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:501:21: error: 'PerlSIO_fwrite' undeclared (first use in this function) Curl.xs: In function 'XS_WWW__Curl__Multi_info_read': C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:500:20: error: 'PerlSIO_fread' undeclared (first use inthis function) C:\Perl\lib\CORE/XSUB.h:501:21: error: 'PerlSIO_fwrite' undeclared (first use in this function) At this point I don't know what to do .. So, as a summary, I got - feature unsupported (list form for open) under Windows in Makefile.PL - syntax errors in the generated Makefile - a compilation which apparently doe not execute when launched by nmake (a complete mystery for me ..) - a compilation which fails when executed separately Either the procedure does not work as described, or I did some mistakes, or missed some prerequisites Any idea ? Did other users already got similar problems ? Is there an easier way to get this Perl package installed under Windows ? Thanks a lot ! (my Makefile is attached : ) Bien cordialement, Best Regards, Jean-Michel Athané IBM Certified IT Specialist IBM Rational software, France IBM, 1 rue de la Vielle Poste 34006 Montpellier, FR Mobile: +33 (0) 6 20 82 07 36 Téléphone: +33 (0) 4 67 34 43 58 Sauf indication contraire ci-dessus:/ Unless stated otherwise above: Compagnie IBM France Siège Social : 17 avenue de l'Europe, 92275 Bois-Colombes Cedex RCS Nanterre 552 118 465 Forme Sociale : S.A.S. 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