Motivation Recently I was working on a web application using the Perl Mojolicious framework. I was able to deploy it on a Heroku free account, but with some limitations: PostgreSQL database limited to 10’000 rows no way to store logs…
Category: Perl
Prima compilation errors with VC 2008 Express
While building perl distrib Prima-1.38 using vc 2008 express, I got the following error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\stdio.h(358) : error C3163: ‘_vsnprintf’: attributes inconsistent with previous declaration C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\stdio.h(350) : see declaration of ‘_vsnprintf’…
Perl strange compilation messages on win32
I am using SciTE to edit a package and running with Perl 5.10.1 on win32 and suddenly I got compilation message that I couldn’t understand. So I reduce my package to the smallest code that reproduces it in a Bar…
showing executable console
Did you ever try to write to the standard output using STDOUT but never seen your output in the console? This is a little known thing about PE executable on windows that were compiled to be GUI. The PE header…
Powerbuilder::ORCA 0.06
This is a pre-unofficial release, It just allows to open PowerBuilder project up to 12.0, but a lot of new APIs are not mapped yet. Here is was we could do with it. First of all, install Powerbuilder::ORCA (see annexes…
NSIS nsPerl 1.4.1
I have ported it to Perl 5.10.1. Moving project to visual studio express 2008 and added two functions: NSIS_pushstr, NSIS_popstr. See NSIS page for details. Download it now v1.4.2, Added a batch build file, remove win32.dll dependency on msvcr90.dll used in testgui…
Win32::ODBC 0.35 (Unofficial)
Win32::ODBC 0.35 Added a hdbc contructor (allow to share ODBC connection between languages, so nice for embedding perl !). Download it or visit my page on cpan
Win32::Exe 0.15 more PowerBuilder compliant
An official Perl contribution, This a nano patch for reading Version info of Powerbuilder executables, because of non-standard (or non-common?) way to store version information. See on cpan
Win32::Lglcd
Win32::Lglcd – Perl extension for writing Perl’s app for Logitech devices. My first released Perl module, it is a wrapper for Logitech G15 keyboard LCD screen. See the cpan page
Perl to Powerbuilder
One of my sleeping projects is the beginning of a bridge between Powerbuilder (static language) and Perl. You can learn more here Use Powerbuilder code in Perl, but I use it more as experimentation about PBNI and XS programming than…