Hi Jim,
Could you (or even someone else) impress upon David the following points:

1)The version of MinGW that ships with Strawberry Perl really should include the fortran compiler (g77.exe) - so that the PGPLOT and PDL (and perhaps other) modules can be built;
2)Strawberry Perl ought also include the MSYS shell as part of the download - so that C libraries like gmp, gsl, expat, mpfr, netcdf, fftw and others can be built on Win32 (trivially), thus enabling the use of modules that rely on those C libraries;

(Sorry - I haven't provided links to those C libraries ... Google should find them readily enough.)

I'm fairly firmly committed to both points ... more so to the former.

I was going to make both points in person, but I find that my passport has expired ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: xdg at Perl Seminar NY Tuesday October 17 by syphilis
in thread xdg at Perl Seminar NY Tuesday October 17 by jkeenan1

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