From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11970 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2012 14:07:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 11961 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2012 14:07:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from st11p02mm-asmtp002.mac.com (HELO st11p02mm-asmtp002.mac.com) (17.172.220.237) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:29 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from [192.168.1.2] (160.7.222.180.cable.dyn.bal.ncable.com.au [180.222.7.160]) by st11p02mm-asmtp002.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-24.01(7.0.4.24.0) 64bit (built Jan 3 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0M9T008KVWK1UK80@st11p02mm-asmtp002.mac.com> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:28 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-09-04_06:2012-09-04,2012-09-04,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=25 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1203120001 definitions=main-1209040116 Subject: Re: cygport (0.11.0): Installing dll's into perl site directories (not /usr/bin) From: Mark O'Keefe In-reply-to: <1346742737.10428.8.camel@YAAKOV04> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <9FE65E8A-CA52-4C76-AEBD-6859A318F1A0@mac.com> References: <7D847B86-17E1-430E-8482-9CDB7DE61140@mac.com> <1346722038.6024.28.camel@YAAKOV04> <1E2B8693-6299-4F67-9328-FA1D5E0AF212@mac.com> <1346742737.10428.8.camel@YAAKOV04> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 Ah. I had assumed that this stuff was basically correct in the makefiles. Wrong. Adding the -module to the appropriate libraries had the right outcome. Thanks for your help!! Now if only I could post to the cygwin-apps list. Currently nothing gets through on that one. Assume moderated and requires email approved or something. On 04/09/2012, at 5:12 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 16:55 +1000, Mark O'Keefe wrote: >> I don't have link errors, I have perl runtime errors when trying to execute the >> bootstrap of the C code for the modules. This is caused by the DLL's not being >> in the expected place. They were in /usr/bin and this is not in the search path >> for the DynaLoader so it doesn't load the library. > > Which, since it sounds as this is an autotools-driven package, would be > caused by a missing "-module" flag in the corresponding *_la_LDFLAGS. > It won't cause a link error (only on Darwin is there a structural > difference with or without), but it does affect where the DLL is > installed on PE platforms, as you see here. > > Furthermore, since -module is missing, that means the module library > name must start with "lib" (since automake would complain otherwise). > The resulting DLL will start with "cyg" instead, meaning that whatever > is loading this module needs to be edited appropriately. > > > Yaakov > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple