Hello,

I am running perl 5.14 and I am also having the same issue during Win32-OLE-0.1712 installation.

I am unable to understand the solution. Could you please explain how to resolve this problem? Thank you.

Issue: 

Running Mkbootstrap for Win32::OLE ()
chmod 644 "OLE.bs"
g++ -c   -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wim
+plicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/maint/perl.
+x86/build=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fdebug-prefix-map=/mnt/share/
+maint/perl.x86/src/perl-5.14.4=/usr/src/debug/perl-5.14.4-3 -fwrapv -
+fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3   -DVERSION=
+\"0.1712\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.1712\"  "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwi
+n-threads-64int/CORE"   OLE.cpp
cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wimplicit-function-declaration
+’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
OLE.xs: In function ‘BOOL IsLocalMachine(PerlInterpreter*, SV*)’:
OLE.xs:482:85: error: ‘stricmp’ was not declared in this scope
     if (GetComputerNameA(szComputerName, &dwSize) && stricmp(pszName,
+ szComputerName) == 0)
                                                                      
+               ^
Makefile:376: recipe for target 'OLE.o' failed
make: *** [OLE.o] Error 1

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In reply to Re^4: How to make Win32::OLE work on Cygwin (cpan -i -T Win32::OLE) by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to make Win32::OLE work on Cygwin by gjoshi

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