Re: Programs with Inline::C suddenly fail to compile

On Jan 14, 5:41 pm, Ben Morrow <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have you upgraded ExtUtils::MakeMaker in the meanwhile,
or any other toolchain modules?

No, I haven't, although since you mentioned it, I tried re-
installing it with:

cpan -fi ExtUtils::MakeMaker

but that didn't seem to change anything. I finally got it working,
though, with your next suggestion:


Well, you could always find a copy of dlltool
(I presume it's part of GNU binutils for Win32)
and put it in strawberry\c\bin.

I checked, and dlltool.exe was not in my GNU unix utilities for
Win32 (I'm not sure... is that the same as GNU binutils?). However, I
did a "find2perl" search on C:\ and eventually found dlltool.exe in C:
\Program Files\GCL-2.6.7-ANSI\mingw\mingw32\bin , so I copied it to C:
\strawberry\c\bin (the directory where gcc.exe resides).

This solved the problem! My Inline::C programs now compile.

Of course, I'm still puzzled as to why I could compile with no
problems last month and today I got errors relating to not finding
dlltool.exe . I don't recall ever installing mingw (perhaps
installing Strawberry Perl or Inline::C did it for me), but maybe the
mingw bin directory was in my path and somehow got removed recently.


Inline::C checksums your source
and skips the recompile if it's unchanged, so your old
script isn't getting recompiled at all. If you clear out
D:\tmp\_Inline you'll find the old script stops working
too (which is actually a step forward, even though it may
not seem like it).

Makes sense, as it would explain why there's multiple copies of
programs in the _Inline\lib\auto directory. This brings up the
question: If I modify the C code 20 times and run it after each
modification, will I have 20 cached programs in the _Inline
directory? Do the old cached programs ever go away, or do they
essentially stay around forever?

Anyway, thanks a million for your help, Ben.

-- Jean-Luc
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