mods for compiling perl && perl common packages

[epeschko at den-mdev1 (Ed Peschko)]

hey all,

I'm working on compiling perl smoothly with dmake and egcs, for both the 
'standard' modules and the auxilliaries (libwin32, guido, etc). I'm running
into a couple of issues in compiling:

First, inside the file Windows32/Structures.h, there is the code:

typedef struct _KEY_EVENT_RECORD {
  WINBOOL bKeyDown;
  WORD wRepeatCount;
  WORD wVirtualKeyCode;
  WORD wVirtualScanCode;
 
  char AsciiChar;
  char pad;
#if 0
  union {
    WCHAR UnicodeChar PACKED;
    CHAR  AsciiChar PACKED;
  } uChar PACKED;
#endif
  DWORD dwControlKeyState PACKED;
} PACKED KEY_EVENT_RECORD;

and I'm wondering why the mask. Is it relatively safe to unmask the code?

Second, there are a couple of code snippets which don't seem to compile in
the File Security module, listed below.  The symbols seem to be defined in 
the winnt.h file in the VC++ distribution; how WinNT-savvy is GCC for EGCS?
Is it safe to use the definitions in the winnt.h file for compiling with GCC?

Ed

(PS: good job, btw. From the perl benchmarks, EGCS is approximately 25% faster 
than VC++ at pretty much all of the perl tasks.)

(PPS: is there going to be a egcs-1.10 binary set released soon?)

-----
Newc( 5, pACLNew, cbACL, char, ACL ) ;
        if (pACLNew == NULL) {
        ErrorHandler( "Newc pACLNew") ;
        goto SetCleanup;
        }
 
        if (!InitializeAcl(pACLNew, cbACL, ACL_REVISION2)) {
        ErrorHandler( "InitializeAcl");
        goto SetCleanup;
-----

fails on the symbol ACL_REVISION2

-----
        SV* sv ;
        PACL pACLNew = NULL;
        PACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE pAllAce ;
        PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR pSD = NULL;
        DWORD cbACL = 1024, i ;
        PSID pSID = NULL;
        DWORD cbSID = 1024 ;
        ACCESS_MASK AccountRights ;

----

fails on the symbol PACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE

----
        PSECURITY_DESCRIPTOR pSecDesc = NULL ;
        SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR_CONTROL Control = 0 ;
        BOOL bDaclPresent, bDaclDefaulted ;
        PACL pDacl ;
        PACE_HEADER pAce ;
        PACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE pAllAce ;
        LPTSTR FullName, Name = NULL, DName = NULL, NoName = "Unknown\000" ;
        DWORD bFN = MAXIMUM_NAME_LENGTH << 1,

----

fails on the symbol PACE_HEADER