On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Frank Merrow wrote:
>  So we have a project stuck on Perl 5.6 and are finally looking to
>  upgrade to Perl 5.8.
> 
>  One unusual piece of code is a C++ program that loads the Perl56.dll
>  and interacts with it in a number of ways to run regular expressions
>  and other pieces of code . . . not really running "perl scripts" per
>  se, but just doing a eval on a few lines here and there.
> 
>  We have most of the Perl 5.6->5.8 items understood and have been
>  through all the documentation so the upgrade of our Perl code itself
>  is well understood.
> 
>  However, the one thing that none of us has seen is anything to
>  indicate if there are any changes in the way I'll need to interact
>  with the DLL.
> 
>  Is the interface to the Perl 5.6 and Perl 5.8 DLL the same?
> 
>  Or will other coding changes be required as well . . . if so is that
>  documented anywhere?

It is mostly the same.  I have several applications that work with either
perl56.dll or perl58.dll.  If you run into problems, why don't you send
a message with more details?

Cheers,
-Jan

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