I'm running Active State's Perl 5.8 on my PC. Works great. Love the PPM. It's super easy to install CPAN compiled modules. But what on Earth do you do when there isn't a pre-compiled binary? Specifically, I've written some custom Perl modules with a C++ underbelly using XS. I can compile and run these modules on UNIX (Solaris) using gcc. So how do I compile and run them in Windows? OK, I know that nmake is part of the answer but I do not know if it is the complete answer. It is my understanding that nmake works great if the module install is a glorified copy-to-bin operation but how does it work for heavy compiling? To be honest, nmake looks a little too skinny to be a heavy lifter like gcc. What else do I need to compile modules on Windows?

In reply to Compiling Perl Modules on Windows by rzer10

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