Wouldn't hurt to *explicitly* mention a MinGW link in that list of tutorials (though it's not hard to find one in the "parent" link that you provided) - such as Compiling C/C++ based Modules under ActiveState using MinGW. The fact that I wrote that is *not* the reason I'm trying to plug it. For a start, I'm not all that sure that it's particularly well written, anyway. But the good thing about MinGW is that, apart from the fact that it works seamlessly with recent versions of ActivePerl, it uses the same runtime library as ActivePerl (unlike the free MS compilers). In certain (albeit, rare) situations this runtime library disparity can prevent one from being able to use a module on ActivePerl that was built using a free MS compiler (egWin32::SharedFileOpen). In other instances, it merely means that 2 (instead of one) runtime libraries need to be loaded.

I should also add that, as mentioned in the above-referenced tutorial, MinGW works fine with older versions of ActivePerl so long as ExtUtils::FakeConfig is installed.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^2: PPM: Modules Dissappearing / Alternative Repositories? by syphilis
in thread PPM: Modules Dissappearing / Alternative Repositories? by boblawblah

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