You said you have MinGW 4.8.1 installed and that the cpan command tried to install MinGW 4.6.3

The cpan command maybe actually meant you have a compiler different from the one that Perl was built with.

In general, it is better to compile XS modules with the same compiler, version and options as Perl itself. It may well be that an executable built with 4.6.3 can load modules built with 4.8.1 with no problems, but the cpan command may still be being conservative.

FWIW, one of the reasons I like the Strawberry Perl distribution (when I have to run Perl on MS Windows) is that it includes a copy of the compiler tool chain used to build the distribution.

In reply to Re: Make ActivePerl use existing compiler by RonW
in thread Make ActivePerl use existing compiler by testuser448

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