Re^2: Adminmisc & V5.16

AdminMisc 2003 source was the last release

When you look at that source you find a ppd file that references ppm packages built for perl-5.8 and earlier.
This is not much use if you have perl-5.16.

There's also a collection of headers, .cpp, and .c files - but no instructions that I could find as to how to build the damned thing. (Maybe I just didn't look hard enough.)
I seem to recall that the idea was that you could build this as an MSVC++ Project if you had a Microsoft compiler that was capable of doing that and if you knew how to build a "Project".
I have MSVC compilers that are "Project"-capable, but I don't know how to utilise that capability with this AdminMisc source - if, indeed, that is what one is supposed to do.
Furthermore, I have no interest in researching how to build this (or any other) "Project".

But if some knowledgeable person can provide a step-by-step account of how one can build this module from the given source (using either VC++ or MinGW) then I can probably provide ppm packages for it - and give it the availability it deserves.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: Adminmisc & V5.16 by Loops (Curate) on Nov 14, 2014 at 05:23 UTC
Hey Rob, Not something i'm likely to dig into either, but it would be great if someone who spends more time on windows could take a look. In any case, there is an MS Developer Studio project file included in that zip (AdminMisc.dsp) that should have most of the build info in it.	[reply]
Re^3: Adminmisc & V5.16 by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2014 at 07:53 UTC
:) `[ddg://site:perlmonks.org roth.net Makefile.PL]` site:perlmonks.org roth.net Makefile.PL -> Can't find packages for Strawberry Perl (e.g., Win32::AdminMisc, etc) -> Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 -> https://code.google.com/p/libwin32/source/browse/tags/libwin32/0.07/AdminMisc/Makefile.PL `use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use Config; $BORLAND = 1 if $Config{'cc'} =~ /^bcc32/i; WriteMakefile( 'INC' => ($BORLAND ? '' : '-GX'), 'OBJECT' => 'Dns$(OBJ_EXT) AdminMisc$(OBJ_EXT)', 'NAME' => 'Win32::AdminMisc', 'VERSION_FROM' => 'AdminMisc.pm', 'XS' => { 'AdminMisc.xs' => 'AdminMisc.cpp' }, 'dist' => { COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f', SUFFIX => 'gz' }, ); sub MY::xs_c { ' .xs.cpp: $(PERL) -I$(PERL_ARCHLIB) -I$(PERL_LIB) $(XSUBPP) $(XSPROTOARG) $(XSUB +PPARGS) $.xs >xstmp.c && $(MV) xstmp.c $.cpp '; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Adminmisc & V5.16 ( Win32-Daemon-20131206\Makefile.PL ) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2015 at 08:53 UTC
Just ran into a problem using this postamble in `Win32-Daemon-20131206\Makefile.PL` It should be `sub MY::xs_c { ' .xs.cpp: $(XSUBPPRUN) $(XSPROTOARG) $(XSUBPPARGS) $.xs >xstmp.c && $(MV) x +stmp.c $.cpp '; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Adminmisc & V5.16 ( Win32-Daemon-20131206\Makefile.PL ) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2015 at 08:54 UTC
The problem was `Can't locate object method "new" via package "ExtUtils::ParseXS" at ....site\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp line 50.`	[reply] [d/l]


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