After taking the maintainership of Win32::API, I have been busy trying to build several useful environments to be able to test the module, including combinations of:
If we also consider that cygwin is entirely another story, this is definitely a great mess, at least for me: I'm not a Win32 development genius... :-)
The latest version distributed on CPAN, marked v0.45, should build and install (but not test) cleanly on at least VC6 and gcc/MinGW. The test suite is not yet ready to be enough "cross-platform" as we all want.
I'm now working on that, and on cygwin environment integration. I already applied some cygwin-related patches dated 2002 or so, but there are problems with msvc2003 Makefiles compatibility and API_test.dll building in the test suite.
Re:This is just great!
cosimo on 2006-12-08T14:54:06
In fact, I'm working on the API_test.dll bit. It's a test dll that is included in the distribution to run some meaningful tests that everything passes as expected when invoking test dll functions.
The problem is that the API_test.dll built by MinGW GCC is totally different from that built by MSVC (obviously). When you run the test scripts, there are nasty segfaults all over...
I'll be back...
:-)
