Ok, I wrote I was tempeted to do it, but I was afraid of my own inexperience; then bart said it's really "that simple" and I had grown increasingly frustrated with not having a handy platform to test e.g. the code from the (self-proclaimedly) most interesting post I wrote as of late: then I tried! That is, to install MinGW on my system to use CPAN to install binary modules for ActivePerl, but specifically, autobox (there's nothing else I'm missing from PPM's that I know of...) Actually, it is that simple: I also tried installing a random XS module and it built like a charm.

Of course, passing to autobox is a whole another matter: it should build for 5.10.0 too, and indeed it compiles just fine. But then it fails quite a lot of tests. "Oh, well!" I thought, and I tried forcing the install, just for experimenting, you know: in fact all experiments including the most elementary ones do fail to the effect that the syntax is not even recognized; I get a runtime error about not being allowed to call a method without a package or object reference.

Is there anything I could do to have this module install cleanly?

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In reply to Seeking help for compiling autobox with MinGW for ActivePerl under Windows by blazar

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