[Catalyst] Installing on Windows XP

[Carl Franks]

If you have a compiler, Scalar-Utils's Makefile.PL also supports an
"-xs" flag to force xs
(it's compiler detection seems to be broken on win/gcc)

perl Makefile.PL -xs
make test
make install


On 09/02/06, Karl.Moens at marsh.com <Karl.Moens at marsh.com> wrote:
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> Robert wrote:
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> > I used the Task::Catalyst bundle to install Catalyst on my XP box. I got
> > a "weak references" error afterwards when I tried to create a site. I
> > seem to remember hearing about that at some point (I think).
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> > Robert
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> I had the same problem some time ago. It seems IMHO that it is due to the
> newest version (1.18 ?) of Scalar::List::Utils being installed. If you
> install it through CPAN you get the non XS-version which does not support
> weak references and if you then install it through ppm, it still does not
> support weak references.
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> To solve this I had to install ActiveState Perl again (in a different
> folder) and copy all Scalar::List::Utils related files from the fresh
> install over the existing Perl install (don't forget the files in the
> auto-folder, it is here that the XS-files are!). IIRC the latest AS Perl
> uses Scalar::List::Utils 1.17 and that seems to work.
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> Karl
> aka CountZero on Perlmonks
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