Hi, quick question: someone mentioned to me today that compiling the perl interpreter on win32 (perl.exe) was "better" using VC++ rather than mingw.

It was an unqualified statement, but it got me thinking, why is that (or is it even accurate)??

I can't find any resources on this - not that it's vital, but it has an impact if you want to compile modules, you don't have vc++, and you do have mingw (need to compile modules using the same compiler you used to compile perl). I know there's a way around this using ExtUtils::FakeConfig, but why bother if mingw works just fine for the original perl compile as well??

I think I read ActiveState uses VC++, but beyond that, haven't come across anything...