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in thread Installing Javascript.pm on XP

It sounds like he is trying to build JavaScript from within MSYS (which he used to compile SpiderMonkey). MSYS comes with perl 5.6.1.

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Re^5: Installing Javascript.pm on XP
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 06, 2009 at 07:17 UTC
    MSYS comes with perl 5.6.1

    Aaah, yes - MSYS perl is still stuck at 5.6.1.

    <waffle>
    One often finds that a native Win32 perl (eg ActivePerl or Strawberry Perl) works quite well in the MSYS shell. If perl gets presented with the unix-style MSYS paths (eg /usr/local) then the MSYS perl is needed. Otherwise a native Win32 perl seems to be fine.

    I've even found that, to build openssl-0.9.8g in the MSYS shell (which requires that a perl installation be available), the MSYS perl is no good and one *has* to use a native Win32 perl instead.
    </waffle>

    Cheers,
    Rob
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