Compile and install of Curses v1.14 under Win32 mingw

cosimo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello fellow monks,

the task I'm facing is clear: installing Curses to a CamelPack perl on Win32. CamelPack (but Strawberry Perl is the same) uses mingw, or gcc if you prefer.

To correctly find the libraries, I had to customize the Makefile.PL with a "gcc" flavour of Win32 install. The problem is in the compile process. It bombs out with a long list of "invalid operands for binary -" errors. Surely I can also post the complete error messages, if anyone got a clue of what is happening...

I suspect this has to do with some compiler differences between MSVC, Borland C++ and gcc. I tried to fiddle with dXSARGS and dITEMS macro expansions in XSUB.h, but with no luck.

I searched for other people's experiences. On perlmonks, it seems that [id://crazyinsomniac] and [id://PodMaster] managed to do something, but both (momentarily?) are out of reach..
I also tried to apply magic ppport.h code suggestions, but this led to no progress...

So... has anyone ever managed to install Curses on Win32?
Some tips? Thank you.

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Re: Compile and install of Curses v1.14 under Win32 mingw
by xdg (Monsignor) on Sep 22, 2006 at 13:48 UTC

Please consider also posting this issue to Vanilla Perl Problem Modules - External Dependencies (at win32.perl.org). It will help us keep track of it and several intrepid adventurers are regularly checking there for things that need fixing.

-xdg

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