Re: MSVC vs Perl

On 2022-11-25 Fr 18:48, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> For various reasons (see below) it's preferable to build on Windows with
> Strawberry Perl. This works OK if you're building with Msys2, I upgraded
> the instance on the machine that runs fairywren and drongo today, and
> fairywren seems fine. Not so drongo, however. First it encountered a
> build error, which I attempted to cure using something I found in the
> vim sources [1]. That worked, but then there's a failure at runtime like
> this:
>
> 2022-11-25 21:33:01.073 UTC [3764:3] pg_regress LOG: statement: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "plperl"
> src/pl/plperl/Util.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0000000012800080, needed 0000000012900080)
> 2022-11-25 21:33:01.100 UTC [5048:5] LOG: server process (PID 3764) exited with exit code 1
>
> I don't know how to debug this. I'm not sure if there's some flag we
> could set which would cure it. It looks like a 1 bit difference, but I
> haven't found what that bit corresponds to.

I just saw Andres's post on -committers about this. Will see if that
helps me.

cheers

andrew

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