Hello All:

I hope I followed all the rules (http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=237057, etc.)

I'm trying to compile PERL from source on a Windows box. I'm using XP SP3, Perl 5.16.2, and Visual C++ 2010.

nmake runs without more than a couple of nags for deprecated methods and such -- nothing fatal.

When it comes to nmake test, it keeps failing with this: 

Can't extract version from pod/perldelta.pod at Porting/pod_lib.pl lin
+e 117.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '..\perl.exe' : return code '0xff'
Stop.

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I did notice that there wasn't a perldelta.pod in the tar ball. There are however a ton of perl[version number]delta.pod files. e.g., perl5162delta.pod

I copied the perl5162delta.pod file and renamed it to perldelta.pod. Re-running nmake fails on test again. 

Line 117 is straight forward:
$contents =~ /perldelta - what is new for perl v(5)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\n/;

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What doesn't appear to be straight forward to me is why the 16, 2 isn't getting passed to this call and thus causing a fatal error.

I hope I've asked a decently worded question... just stuck here that's all. Any suggestions regarding compiling this from source would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

In reply to Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue

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