in reply to building 64 bit perl on a 32 bit windows machine

Do you mean cross-compile it to run on a 64-bit machine or somehow magically run 64-bit perl on a 32-bit machine?


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Re^2: building 64 bit perl on a 32 bit windows machine
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 17, 2008 at 17:04 UTC
    Yes, cross-compiling is what I meant. I should have been more clear.

      Apparently Visual Studio 2005 .NET Framework2 can "cross-compile to any Windows platform including x86-64 and Itaniuum". The codename to search for is "Whidbey". But I think you might be the first to try it with Perl?


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.