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From:
Konovalov, Vadim
Date:
March 15, 2000 00:11
Subject:
RE: Disposition of Modules
Message ID:
402099F49BEED211999700805FC7359F46B093@ru0028exch01.spb.lucent.com
> From: David Grove [mailto:pete@petes-place.com]
> In testing modules for 5.5.670 (660) I'm finding that some big modules
> (trying the bundles first) break on the Win32 platform, 
> namely at this time,
> Tk (which I've had to use 800.011 for quite a while because subsequent
> versions wouldn't compile on Win32, but even that doesn't 
> compile now),
> libwin32. It's complaining about undeclared identifiers: na, 
> sv_undef, and
> sv_no. There may be others. I am using MS Visual Studio (VC++) 6.0
> Enterprise SP3 on Windows 2000.

It's documented that in newer versions of Perl PL_na should be used instead
of na. 
Newer Tk distributions know that and compile successfully, and you should
use them for newer versions of Perl. 
I compiled Tk800.019 with BC++5.2 with almost no problems .
(I did 3 small modifications to platform-specific source code to pass
compile, and that was a good exercise to the reader :) All tests for Tk
passed ok. 

Good luck,
Vadmi

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