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• MinGW patch for Vista (Score:2)

  by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2007.12.27 4:24 (#59726) Journal

  Windows Vista: The MinGW compiler system has known problems on Vista with the current directory setup, and as such Strawberry Perl does not support Vista at this time. I have some ideas on how to fix this, but don't want to potentially burdon non-Vista users with the complications it might create. So we may well see a specific Vista version released separately.

  As you can read in this thread on Perlmonks [perlmonks.org], there is a patch available for MinGW's gcc on Vista. It is apparently enough to fix build issues on XS modules using MinGW on Vista, so I'm hopeful that it might be enough to fix Strawberry Perl too.

  If I read it correctly, the problem was in incorrect parameter passing to some functions, and Vista catches it. I'm quite sure these function calls are actually just as incorrect on previous versions of Windows... so I see no reason why a patched gcc wouldn't work equally well on XP.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by bart (450)

    Addendum: This is the post [aarongiles.com] that gave me the latter idea:

    This is an actual mingw bug that has been tracked down to a change in the way the Microsoft standard C libraries handle invalid parameters. Older versions of the DLL would not check invalid parameters and go down potentially untested code paths with them. The versions in Vista do stricter parameter checking. Some calls made by the mingw tools pass invalid parameters to one of the functions and fail, causing the internal paths to quit working.