You'll need to hack win32/config.w32 instead

I can't find that file in the source. Do you mean win32/config.gc ?

I haven't yet found a way of modifying config.gc. There's no problem in modifying makefile.mk, but config.gc is readonly, and whilst I can remove the readonly attribute (running as either Owner or User), I get "Access Denied" whenever I try to save a change to that file ... irrespective of whether I'm running as User or Owner ... irrespective of whether the source was unpacked by User or Owner ... irrespective of the directory into which the source was unpacked.

I've spent over 40 minutes switching between "User" and "Owner" trying to edit the damned thing :-)

Any idea wtf is going on ?? (I'm fairly new to Windows XP ... never had a problem like this with Windows 2000). I'm using Cygwin's tar utility to unpack the source. The command I'm running is

tar zxvf downloads/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

Blardee hell ...

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: Win32, MinGW and -Duse64bitint by syphilis
in thread Win32, MinGW and -Duse64bitint by syphilis

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