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Jan Dubois wrote on 2010-07-21: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Steve Hay wrote: >> It started by emitting a mountain of warnings about type conversions >> for every file that it compiles. Is that normal? Then it produced this >> strange error message immediately after linking perl.exe: >> >> ..\miniperl.exe -I..\lib bin\exetype.pl ..\wperl.exe WINDOWS >> 'x' outside of string in unpack at bin\exetype.pl line 39. >> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '..\miniperl.exe' : return code '0xff' >> Stop. >> >> Line 39 in that file is: >> >> ($signature,$size,$magic) = unpack "Lx16Sx2S", $record; >> >> What on earth has happened here? > > I've managed to build 5.12.1 with the 64-bit version of VS 2008 after > cherry-picking 2 patches from Nicholas (see log messages below). > [...] > Steve, could you verify that cherry-picking these 2 commits solves the > problem for your configuration as well? > Yes, with those two commits added to 5.12.1 it now builds correctly for me too.Thread Previous | Thread Next