The problem with Borland C++ is simple: it does not support 64 bit file access functions, and this is just that.

I've asked this on p5p list, and Jarkko answered:
 "Well, if Borland doesn't have the APIs, we cannot fix that.."

Indeed, any of _fstati64, _lseeki64, _telli64 are missing from *.lib

To summarize:
   there's nothing to worry about, nothing at all,
   there's nothing to worry about nothing I can do.

To answer your question how does MSVC does that: it has such a functions. Those could be reimplemented using Win32 API, but this should belong to CRT, not to Perl.

And, BrowserUK, having such enthusiasm, may be it worth posting your worries to p5p *and* posting bug to Borland?
Now posting bug report to Borland is possible, but requires tonns of registrations and last time I tried Web interface did not accepted my password (although another their system accepted my password beautifully)

I hope you'll have better luck than mine in this :)
Besides, what namely you are trying to achieve by trying Borland build?

Best regards,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog

In reply to Re: Perl / Win32 / VC++ / USE_LARGE_FILES by Courage
in thread Perl / Win32 / VC++ / USE_LARGE_FILES by BrowserUk

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