in reply to Is a build a build if it couldn't build?

Building on Win32 is no way tricky.

But after you've said "I chose to use an AS build rather than a CPAN version as I thought..." then I suggest you to do following:

If you really must use Borland compiler, then:

  1. read README.win32 file what it says about Borland C++. Also read "makefile.mk". It contains "BCCOLD" defines which you should set/unset (uncomment). BTW why you did not use newer compiler BCC-5.5?
  2. be prepared to have a bit more than usual number of problems.

Some compilers are supported better than others, namely Win32 supported by MSVC++ best of all.

Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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Re: Re: Is a build a build if it couldn't build?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 08, 2003 at 17:12 UTC

    I have downloaded binaries from AS, that's what I've been using for the last 9 months, but I want to move onto using my own build for a variety of reasons.

    I don't have MSVC++.

    If it isn't clear from the above, I have read README.win32--there is no way I would have gotten this far without have done so.

    I am using

    Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland ?

    BCCOLD (nor anything similar to it) appears anywhere in makefile.mk?

    I'm quite comfortable with having some problems, but it seems strange that the build process is set up to use header files from a pre-existing installation of Perl, when building a perl installation. The header files in question are a part of the compiler distribution and the build process should be set to look there for them (it has all the relevant information to find them) rather than as a part of some installed perl, which won't exist if your are building for the first time.

    It was this final contradiction that left me bewildered, confused, and after many hours of trying, intensely frustrated.

    Examine what is said, not who speaks.
    1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
    3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Arthur C. Clarke.
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      About "use header files from a pre-existing installation of Perl" - there exists a more general problem in BC++ compiler that they tend to name as "Borland include behaviour" in more recent compilers
      A statement #include "file" has incorrect search order for header file.

      More generally, perl-5.005-03 uses BCC version 5.02 and lower, but not 5.5. Support of 5.5 became in perls starting from 5.6.0 versions.

      I also had some frustrated experience here, sent some corrective patches to p5p list, and sent bug reports to Borland.

      As a side remark, I succeeded to use AS-built perl from within my Borland program, compiler version 5.5 .

      Courage, the Cowardly Dog

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