Win32::API perl module

[Reini Urban]

Jason Pearce schrieb:
> This worked a treat Reini, thanks very much for your help.
> I need this on several machines at work, so I will package it up in a 
> tar.bz2 for use with setup.exe. Once tested I'll post it back here.

Well packaging is easy, but IMHO not before enabling W32 Callbacks. 
Otherwise I would have proposed it by myself.

But if people want it without callbacks I could propose it.

BTW: I'd rather prefer pmoore's FFI or the C-DynaLib-0.55, which work 
like a charm with w32 and cdecl callbacks and don't use such a horrible 
and MSVC-only aldo-style hack.
Or any other libffi or ffcall based FFI solution, which can be used for 
Win32::API callbacks.

> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Jason Pearce schrieb:
>>> I have been trying to compile up Win32::API perl module under 
>>> Cygwin's perl.
>>>
>>> The latest version off CPAN doesn't build (see below).
 >>>
>> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.41-cygwin.patch 
>> =>
>> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.42.tar.gz 
>>
>> just the new-style win32 callbacks do not work that way with gcc.
>> old style it worked, but backporting seemed to much effort for me.
>>
>>> I have found some refernces to patches people have applied to get it 
>>> working in the past.  In particular Win32:API version 0.20.
>>>    http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/libwin32/Win32-API-0.20cygwin/
>>> But I was unable to get that working either, maybe because the 
>>> Cygwin.dll and/or Perl (v5.8.2) has moved on since that patch was done?
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone has got it working for themselves?
>>> If not, I'd really appreciate someone taking a look. I am happy to do 
>>> some of my own dirty work, but I have little knowledge of the 
>>> Cygwin.dll so I really struggle to know where to look. I gather 
>>> Win32::API is relying on a hook that the Cygwin.dll is not providing?
>>>
>>> All I really need this for is to call a procedure in a DLL, that does 
>>> some port IO for me. At the moment my work around is to use Active 
>>> State perl, for which Win32::API does build, but it would be better 
>>> to only have one version of Perl around.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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