From David.Terhune@itt.com

I just compiled Perl from sources downloaded yesterday using MSVC++ v6.0,
and got an error when running 'nmake test'. Here is output from the test
and from the -V flag.

============================================================================

OUTPUT EXTRACT from executing 'nmake test'​:

base/term...........FAILED test 2
  Failed 1/7 tests, 85.71% okay

Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed

base/term.t 7 1 14.29% 2
15 tests skipped, plus 61 subtests skipped.

============================================================================

OUTPUT from executing 'perl -V'​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86
  uname=''
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cl.exe', optimize='-O2 -MD -DNDEBUG', gccversion=
  cppflags='-DWIN32'
  ccflags ='-O2 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT '
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -machine​:x86'
  libpth=\lib
  libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib
uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
msvcrt.lib
  libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl.lib
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release
-machine​:x86'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Feb 10 2000 15​:00​:15
  @​INC​:
  D​:\Local\Source\p500503\lib
  .

Dave Terhune
david.terhune@​itt.com

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

I just built almost the exact same perl on win32 with VC 6.0, but I
notice one difference​:

libc=msvcrt\.lib\, so=dll\, useshrplib=yes\, libperl=perl\.lib

I picked up the perlcrt library (described in the win32 readme)
and built with it, so perhaps this test is running into a crt bug.

The only other possible difference might be that I have (I think)
service pack 3 for VC++ 6.0, don't now if you do or not.

From @ask

[RT_System - Thu Feb 10 20​:16​:08 2000]​:

I just built almost the exact same perl on win32 with VC 6.0, but I
notice one difference​:

libc=msvcrt\.lib\, so=dll\, useshrplib=yes\, libperl=perl\.lib

I picked up the perlcrt library (described in the win32 readme)
and built with it, so perhaps this test is running into a crt bug.

The only other possible difference might be that I have (I think)
service pack 3 for VC++ 6.0, don't now if you do or not.

Is this still a problem with more recent perl's and/or tools?

- ask

--
ask bjoern hansen, http​://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
Develooper LLC, http​://develooper.com/ $stuff->better;

@ask - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

From David.Terhune@itt.com

I don't know if it's still a problem or not. I switched to the Cygwin
perl distribution for work on Windows because of their lousy
command-line shell.

Dave Terhune
ITT Industries, Inc., Systems Division
david.terhune@​itt.com

-----Original Message-----
From​: Ask Bjoern Hansen [mailto​:perlbug-followup@​perl.org]
Sent​: Sunday, April 27, 2003 3​:00 PM
To​: Terhune, David -Systems
Subject​: [perl #2134] Test Failure

[RT_System - Thu Feb 10 20​:16​:08 2000]​:

I just built almost the exact same perl on win32 with VC 6.0, but I
notice one difference​:

libc=msvcrt\.lib\, so=dll\, useshrplib=yes\, libperl=perl\.lib

I picked up the perlcrt library (described in the win32 readme) and
built with it, so perhaps this test is running into a crt bug.

The only other possible difference might be that I have (I think)
service pack 3 for VC++ 6.0, don't now if you do or not.

Is this still a problem with more recent perl's and/or tools?

- ask

--
ask bjoern hansen, http​://askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
Develooper LLC, http​://develooper.com/ $stuff->better;
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From @steve-m-hay

The current stable perl (5.8.5) builds and tests cleanly using MSVC++ 6.0.

@steve-m-hay - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'