Re^4: installing modules with XS on Windows 64-bit

Thanks. Assuming I can find that older compiler on MSDN subscription, and install it, how do I tell makeMaker, cpan, etc. which compiler to use?

Someone else said using "o conf" in cpan, but I can't find more documentation on that: does that affect only cpan-hosted builds? And what to use for the options?

—John

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Re^5: installing modules with XS on Windows 64-bit by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 06, 2009 at 01:52 UTC
Assuming I can find that older compiler on MSDN subscription ... I think you can get it here. Though, I tkink BrowserUk found that gets you an updated version that doesn't have (and doesn't need) bufferoverflowU.lib. Iff it is that updated version, you then need to remove '-lbufferovewrflowU' from the 'libs' and 'perllibs' entries in Perl/lib/CORE/Config_heavy.pl. To set up the necessary environment variables, I run (on Vista64, btw): `C:\full\path\to\SetEnv.cmd /XP64 /RETAIL` When that's done everything should simply work (using the existing %Config values). However, I don't know about CPAN.pm - I don't use it very often and have no interest in even thinking about any problems it presents. (I generally just install modules the old-fashioned manual way.) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: installing modules with XS on Windows 64-bit
by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 06, 2009 at 01:52 UTC

Assuming I can find that older compiler on MSDN subscription ...

here

BrowserUk

C:\full\path\to\SetEnv.cmd /XP64 /RETAIL

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