Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K

Are you using cygwin? Nevermind that.

It's just the default compile (as far as I remember).

I was also able to compile perl-5.8.0 with borland's free commandline tools, just so you know that that works ;)

I wouldn't say it's the OS you've been having trouble with, but third party open source software ;)

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Re: Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by jordanh (Chaplain) on Sep 25, 2002 at 11:36 UTC
I've built 5.8.0 using cygwin. Built and tested, out of the box. There was a complaint in the test about some *dbm problem that I didn't track down. What's wrong with using cygwin? AFAICT, it's the best way to get a large set of CPAN modules working straight away. Most of the XS stuff has to be massaged for the VC builds and I would imagine this is the case with the Borland compiler as well. If you had a body of Perl that you needed to deploy on Unix and you wanted to do some development on W2K, I'd say that cygwin would be the way to go. Now, if you require a lot of Win32 modules that were developed under VC, I can see that, but, generally, I have few problems with cygwin.	[reply]
Re: Re: Compiling 5.8.0 on Win2K by Adambomb (Initiate) on Sep 25, 2002 at 17:37 UTC
Thanks podmaster, using the borland free compiler worked fine, it appears you and courage were correct. most likely my installation of mingw32 was either outdated or running into one of the reasons mingw32 compilation support is noted as "experimental" heh. Thanks again to all who responded. ---------------------------- ice cream doesn't have teeth.	[reply]