From 3c2d5d6600de388729c7d613962d524352b7a67f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:21:59 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message on MSVC if perl*.lib is not found.

John Harvey, reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: <CABcP5fjEjgOsh097cWnQrsK9yCswo4DZxp-V47DKCH-MxY9Gig@mail.gmail.com>
---
 src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm b/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
index 93dfd24a83..07c91d1849 100644
--- a/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
+++ b/src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
@@ -557,16 +557,17 @@ sub mkvcbuild
 			}
 		}
 		$plperl->AddReference($postgres);
+		my $perl_path = $solution->{options}->{perl} . '\lib\CORE\perl*.lib';
 		my @perl_libs =
 		  grep { /perl\d+.lib$/ }
-		  glob($solution->{options}->{perl} . '\lib\CORE\perl*.lib');
+		  glob($perl_path);
 		if (@perl_libs == 1)
 		{
 			$plperl->AddLibrary($perl_libs[0]);
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			die "could not identify perl library version";
+			die "could not identify perl library version matching pattern $perl_path\n";
 		}
 
 		# Add transform module dependent on plperl
-- 
2.39.5