Thanks for the reply Rob...

Per previous suggestions, I went and got 5.16.3. Getting the same error but I'm not missing any files. I must have overlooked it previously.

Yep, I set up the CCTYPE in the makefile correctly.

I tried Googling before I posted here.

At any rate, commenting out the test suite is no beuno as it will fail nmake install in the same spot. Both nmake test and nmake install fail in the same spot:

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

If you build from source regularly, do you mind sharing the secret sauce?

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue
in thread Compile PERL from source on Windows by MGoBlue

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