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.

In reply to Re: Re: Is a build a build if it couldn't build? by BrowserUk
in thread Is a build a build if it couldn't build? by BrowserUk

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