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Because my internet connection being on one computer and my development platform on another, I am forced to find a binary version of perl for win32 (Win 2000). I have tried downloading the source and was going to install it that way, but I have no way of getting the download from one computer to another at the moment. There were a few links to download but they had the olderversion 5.04 and I want the newest version.

Does anybody have a binary version of perl for win32 that I could download from you or know of another alternative to my problem? I would greatly appreciate the help in any way.

The deal is, I am compiling my homemade operating system with gcc and it gives me this: (warning: no newline at end of file). One solution is to write a perl scrip to show the newline character in the textfile or use <perldoc -f seek> to jump to the last character in file and then have it check if its a newline. If it is, figure out somehow to erase it.

I suppose I could maybe do this with a hex editor.
Any suggestions?

Oh holy great gosh a'mighty in a buzzsaw...

You'd rather *insert* a newline or two at the end of the file in question instead of removing the newline. The compiler expects a newline to be there at the end of the file be it *.c file, be it *.h file.

stay safe

As Beyond Infinity pointed out, the compiler is actually warnig you that there isn't a newline where it expected one to be, not that there was one where one shouldn't be. The warning is meant to detect incomplete files; it is primarily for users who are downloading source code over flaky, text-only FTP connectiions.

keep in mind that it is only a warning; while ignoring them is usually a Bad Thing, since you know the cause of it, and know it is harmless, technically you don't need to pay attention to it - the code should have compiled correctly, assuming that this was the only error. The best solution, though, is to add a couple extra lines at the end of each file, which will get rid of the problem once and for all - though while you are doing that, you might want to check to make sure that the files really didn't get truncated.

@Schol-R-LEA:

As usual, Oh mighty Master Yoda, thee words are filled with sweet elegance and the joy of expression. could it be that you're kinda connaisseur?

stay safe ];->

The best solution, though, is to add a couple extra lines at the end of each file, which will get rid of the problem once and for all - though while you are doing that, you might want to check to make sure that the files really didn't get truncated.

what do you mena by checking to make sure that the files didint get runcated?

beyondsociety wrote:
Does anybody have a binary version of perl for win32 that I could download from you or know of another alternative to my problem? I would greatly appreciate the help in any way.

There's one in the DJGPP distribution ...

I don't know if it's just for checking if a file is truncated though..

I found when i was putting together the AGI compiler, that the preprocessor commands usually end with a new line character and if you don't have one at the end of the file, it might not properly parse the line as a preprocessor.

So I had to rewrite the file reader code to add a newline as the last character in the buffer.

So really, it makes it easier to write a compiler if you assume there's a new line character at the end. GCC has extra code to take care of it and prints a warning.. but other "lesser" compilers might not take this into account.

- Nick

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

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