Re^5: "Lag" of modules in ActiveState ?

use a compiler compatible with the one ActiveState used, namely Visual Studio 6

Hmmm ... not entirely sure that I understand the point correctly. You can use the MinGW compiler with ActivePerl to build Win32-OLE-0.1709. You might also be able to use Visual Studio 7, Visual Studio 8, and Visual Studio 9 - I haven't tested any of those, however.

Note that Visual Studio's make tool is called nmake

That's correct - but you can also use dmake with ActivePerl (and with Visual Studio, too, I think).

There's an elaboration at Compiling C/C++ based Modules under ActiveState using MinGW for anyone interested

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^6: "Lag" of modules in ActiveState ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 06, 2008 at 08:32 UTC
MinGW is compatible, yes. I am under the impression that other versions of VS aren't. Correct me if I'm wrong. Confirmation if I'm right would also be appreciated.	[reply]
Re^7: "Lag" of modules in ActiveState ? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 06, 2008 at 09:31 UTC
MinGW is compatible, yes Yes - that's what I was unsure about. On first reading I thought you were saying that Visual Studio 6 must be used (which would be incorrect). You weren't saying that (you were correct :-) As regards the other Visual Studio compilers, my hunch is that VC 7.0 (at least) would build Win32::OLE for ActivePerl, but I haven't checked. Cheers, Rob	[reply]