But if you can't find the "2003 R2" then go with the one you've been re-directed to. (I think BrowserUk uses that one - with good results.

Indeed. That is the one I use with (mostly) good results. There have been a couple of XS modules that have presented problems to do with duplicate CRTs. However, I believe that those problems are induced by the Win32 perl makefile which explicitly names msvcrt.lib, instead of allowing it to default to the default CRT for the compiler. If that was removed, the CRT problem might go away.

Another approach would be to install that 2008 version and then use it to build your own perl from source.

There are three problems with that.

  1. Building the CPAN distribution of Perl is relatively simple, though you may find that you have to start it twice before it runs to completion.

    But with the CPAN distribution you miss out on a lot of the Win32-specific tools that make AS Perl's so useful.

  2. Finding the full AS sources for a given build isn't always easy.

    They're there somewhere--you always seem to have a link for them--but finding them, by navigating the AS site or googling isn't easy, and they have a tendancy to move around. Almost like AS don't really want you to find them.

  3. The AS sources do not build straight out of the box.

    I have succeeded a couple of times. Once with 5.8.8 32-bit and once with 5.10.0 32-bit. Both times the required changes were hard to find, and different!

    I've never succeeded with 5.10.1 32 or 64-bit. Though I admit I haven't tried too hard. Perhaps that's the point.

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In reply to Re^6: Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8 by BrowserUk
in thread Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8 by lintunen

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