On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
> Well, that's not too easy to read, but anyway, I got to the bottom of it.
> Turns out there's a change in the Perl embedding API that nobody noticed.
> The attached patch worked for me on Windows. We'll need something like this
> on other platforms I believe. I see via Google that Debian is objecting to
> packages that call perl_parse without calling PERL_SYS_INIT (or
> PERL_SYS_INIT3). I'm even wondering if we should backpatch it.
Looks good to me too - thanks!
> Of course, that leaves the issue of the library name to be fixed, but
> sufficient unto the day ...
Yeah - I chatted briefly with Magnus about that a while back. I added
a quick hack to Mkvcbuild.pm to allow it to use either 5.10 or 5.8,
but didn't even think about the msys build.
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