He was testing with a different version of MS's compiler than they use (I think), but I have never heard of any issues with doing that.

If the compiler he's using uses a C runtime other than msvcrt.dll then there can be "issues". And the fact that the MSVC++ 7.0 build of Time::Piece on ActivePerl fails (yet succeeds when perl has been built with MSVC++ 7.0) suggests to me that Time::Piece could be susceptible to such "issues".

But this is, of course, no more than speculation on my part ... and I could be wrong.
The simplest way to demonstrate that I am wrong would be for someone to come up with Time::Piece test failures when using the same compiler that built their perl. I think that would clearly demonstrate that there's something other than "runtime mixing" at play.

UPDATE: One of the "issues" that can arise is touched on at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHAY/Win32-SharedFileOpen-3.41/INSTALL. Specifically, it (correctly) states there:
"In particular, this module will not work correctly if it loads a different C run-time DLL to that loaded by perl itself".

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Testing Time::Piece on Windows/VC by syphilis
in thread Testing Time::Piece on Windows/VC by Corion

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