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FWIW. About a year or more ago, I tried building perl first with MingW and got nowhere at all, then with Borland 5.5 and succeeded with considerable trouble. Eventually I succummed to using MSVC. Luckily I had a very knowledgable mentor that knew how to chop the thing down to the bare essentials.

If you use AS, then MSVC is the only safe way to build modules that have a binary component.

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