Re: [MacPerl] Help Needed with XS/MacPerl related error

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 22.48 -0500 1998.12.20, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>This came up in connection with an XS build. I have a module which
>successfully went through all the stages, and for a change I even followed
>the approved procedure. :-) The BuildProgram successfully produced my
>shared library, and Check Syntax for a test Perl script is OK.
>
>However, when I run the thing, I get an error 12 - unimplemented core
>routine (well, after MacPerl implodes...).  This has me a bit perplexed -
>how do I find out what's not implemented?  The linker didn't emit a peep.
>
>I checked my procedures by producing a really simple XSUB from scratch,
>and this works fine.
>
>Any ideas?  The XS code is actually a wrapper itself, for a whole mass of
>straight C generated by Flex and Bison.  Makefile.PL is modified to handle
>the separate compiles, so as to keep the Perl #defines of yacc-related
>stuff from mixing up with mine (the files in SQL::Statement give a rough
>idea of what I'm doing, sort of).  The C parser code is tested as an
>application and works OK. I mention this because I'm sure the problem is
>related, although I wouldn't have expected this particular error message.
>
>Thanks for any guidance. (The only reason I know what error 12 is because
>I've got this great little MacErrors utility. :-) )

No thoughts here.  In my limited experience with Mac programming (other
than higher-level scripting with Perl and AppleScript, etc.), I've noticed
that Macs can be a pain to work with in C.  Uninformative crashes and bombs
that make you restart each time.  Bleah.

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