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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-06-07 23:47:12 +0100
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-06-07 23:48:06 +0100
commit903f2d7006dbd87b9347acb742b9d7848f566aed (patch)
treec11deca784def681401bfc688488740fe42e5aae /ext/Win32CORE
parent1799399c45baa7e5af45db33567d2a2de629d5e0 (diff)
downloadperl-903f2d7006dbd87b9347acb742b9d7848f566aed.tar.gz
Include the Win32 extension in the ALL_STATIC build on Win32
Many of Win32's Perl level functions are pre-defined (even without a "use Win32" statement), while the implementation is in a dynamically linked module. This is done via the statically linked Win32CORE wrapper that will load Win32 on demand. The initialization of Win32CORE (init_Win32CORE()) is called -- dynamically, via GetProcAddress(), since miniperl.exe doesn't include it -- from Perl_init_os_extras() and normally relies on the DLL's HANDLE having been set in the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH case of DllMain() in perllib.c. We must use a different HANDLE when the functions are located in perl-static.exe since DllMain() is not called in that case, and, in fact, it is sensible to consider other parts of DllMain() which Perl_init_os_extras() might also need to do... The #ifdef DEFAULT_BINMODE section can be scrapped completely since the symbol is not defined, never mentioned anywhere else and not documented. The DisableThreadLibraryCalls() call is not applicable for code that doesn't reside in a DLL. That just leaves set_w32_module_name(), but that is not required either, and may actually be redundant in the DllMain() case too (maybe I will remove it later). The last-but-one thing to do is to arrange for init_Win32CORE to be exported from perl-static.exe (as it already is from perl519.dll, courtesy of makedef.pl) otherwise GetProcAddress() won't find it. I see no harm in always specifying __declspec(dllexport) in Win32CORE.c (except in one existing Cygwin case which doesn't want it, which I'm not touching to minimize regression risk). I thought that the .def file entry written by makedef.pl for perl519.dll would then become redundant, and whilst the VC++ build worked fine without it, the MinGW build didn't: init_Win32CORE no longer got exported from perl519.dll, thus breaking the normal build, so I've therefore left makedef.pl alone. The very last thing to do in some future change is to improve the ALL_STATIC build so that Win32 functions like CopyFile() do not go through Win32CORE's w32_CORE_all forwarding function as they currently do: it isn't necessary when Win32 is statically linked as well! I will revisit this part very soon... Thanks to Jan Dubois and all the others in the following thread for invaluable assistance in this and other recent changes in this area: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2013-06/msg00016.html
Diffstat (limited to 'ext/Win32CORE')
-rw-r--r--ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c b/ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
index 22f6adfcde..b318fcc8c4 100644
--- a/ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
+++ b/ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ XS_EXTERNAL(boot_Win32CORE)
* should never be called though, as Win32CORE.pm doesn't use DynaLoader.
*/
}
-#if defined(__CYGWIN__) && defined(USEIMPORTLIB)
+#if !defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(USEIMPORTLIB)
__declspec(dllexport)
#endif
void