in reply to Re^2: Building 64bit Perl for Windows
in thread Building 64bit Perl for Windows

No, that wouldn't help. You have to cut'n'paste the command you typed (presumably nmake) and everything that follows (up to and including the error) so others can understand what's going on.

What you need to focus on is patching Makefile so that all the special flags amd64 requirs get added. Something like this (as far as I got before I without the libraries)

# PodMaster - UNLESS YOU INSTALL THEM (i don't have oldnames, but so w +hat) LIBBASEFILES = $(LIBBASEFILES) odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib # PodMaster !IF "$(CCTYPE)" == "MSVC60" OPTIMIZE = $(OPTIMIZE) -Op !ELSE OPTIMIZE = $(OPTIMIZE) -Wp64 -Op !ENDIF # PodMaster !IF "$(PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE)" == "x86" !IF "$(CPU)" == "AMD64" WIN64 = define PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = AMD64 !ENDIF !ENDIF #PodMaster !IF "$(CPU)" == "AMD64" LINK_FLAGS = -nologo -nodefaultlib $(LINK_DBG) \ -libpath:"$(INST_COREDIR)" \ -machine:IX86 !ELSE LINK_FLAGS = -nologo -nodefaultlib $(LINK_DBG) \ -libpath:"$(INST_COREDIR)" \ -machine:$(PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE) !ENDIF
Sorry its not in patch format, but you should be able to figure out where to inject these statements. From my notes apparently I used this article to help in sorting out this stuff, but like I said earlier, MS doesn't provide the libs for WinXPHome so I didn't get far.

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Re^4: Building 64bit Perl for Windows
by puploki (Hermit) on Aug 10, 2005 at 18:13 UTC
    Many thanks for your reply, it's very much appreciated.

    The command I'm typing is just "nmake" - no options or anything, or at least, that's what the documentation implies. I'm not using Visual Studio at all, just the SDK - maybe that's an issue?