in reply to Activestate Perl 5.20, Change make/compiler

I think that ActiveState Perl is compiled with MSVC 6 and likely incompatible with newer versions of MSVC.

If you really, really want to change the settings, you will need to run vcvars32.bat to set up your environment before trying to configure or install the module. You will then need to edit lib/Config_heavy.pl to reflect the new names and tools you want to use. Alternatively you can maybe also set things up using sitecustomize.pl.

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Re^2: Change make/compiler
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 06, 2015 at 14:05 UTC
    I think that ActiveState Perl is compiled with MSVC 6 ...

    Not any more - 5.20.0 and later are built using dmake and MinGW.

    If I were the OP I would probably just build perl from source, using the MSVC toolchain that the OP has already acquired - and use that to build the desired module.
    If it's the same version as the ActivePerl already installed, then the installation of Win32::GUI::Grid can then be copied across to the ActivePerl installation.
    Update: I've assumed that the MSVC-built perl is going to be built so that it's binary-compatible with ActivePerl.

    It's not hard to change compiler and make flavours, but there's also flags and other settings to be fiddled with - and I don't think anyone has sorted out all those changes yet (though I'd be delighted to learn that I'm wrong about that.)

    This would be an obvious task for ExtUtils::FakeConfig to address, but I think it currently concerns itself only with the vice-versa case of using MinGW/dmake with MSVC-built perls.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      hehe  set ACTIVEPERL_CONFIG_DISABLE=1 && D:\perl\zips\ActivePerl-5.16.3\bin\perl.exe  -V:cc -V:ccname -V:ccflags -V:cccdlflags -V:libpth -V:libs -V:_a -V:_o -V:ar -V:cpp -V:cppminus -V:cpprun -V:cppstdin -V:d_attribut -V:d_casti32 -V:i64type -V:ld -V:lddlflags -V:ldflags -V:lib_ext -V:libc -V:libperl -V:longdblsize -V:lseektype -V:make -V:nm -V:obj_ext -V:optimize -V:perlpath -V:perllibs -V:quadtype -V:u64type -V:uquadtype         > ExtUtils-FakeConfig-0.12/spec/ap_cl_5160.txt

      Then you do something like 

      s{(".+?\Q\lib\CORE"\E){(PERL)\lib\CORE}g;
s{perlpath='.+?\Q\bin\perl.exe';\E}{perlpath='(PERL)\bin\perl.exe';}g;

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      So then with ActivePerl-5.16.3 you have

      Read more... (2 kB)

      And then something something ExtUtils-FakeConfig-0.12/Makefile.PL :)

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