5.6 is not binary compatible with 5.8

kevinw — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:33:40 -0700

I don't believe 5.6 is binary compatible with 5.8. You'll need to have different builds for the two versions.

Cheers,

kjw

XSLoader => dll not backward compatible / perlXSTut

Maxu — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:52:02 -0700

I need backward compatibility for my modules (c -function call). But
when generating a Module for example 'mytest' (using h2xs, nmake like specified in perlXStut), the resulted mytest.dll has a dependancy to the dll-file of the current active perl-version (e.g. perl58.dll). So when I want to use the module with earlier perl-versions (e.g. perl 5.6.1), the failure

cannot locate perl58.dll

is consequentially generated.

What can I do?

Thanks for answering

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5.6 is not binary compatible with 5.8

XSLoader => dll not backward compatible / perlXSTut