Re^4: Compiling modules for win32 ActivePerl

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Problems building perl are of no consequence for a Strawberry user because Strawberry provides a binary.

Like I said, they're all too disjointed , and need to cooperate more easily with each other. Compiling perl is one example. It matters because strawberry doesn't provide 5.10.1 yet, and it doesn't provide blead.

And modules that you build with 'sh configure'? Huh? I've never come across anything like that. The CPAN standard way is either 'perl Makefile.PL' or 'perl Build.PL'.

Look in the Alien:: namespace (or different versions of Math::Pari). Without sh it gets complicated for no reason.

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Re^5: Compiling modules for win32 ActivePerl by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 01, 2009 at 10:25 UTC
Are you aware that porting stuff to work properly on strange platforms like Windows is Hard? And that the people doing it are volunteers? I'm sure there's lots of stuff that the Strawberry farmers would like to do to improve things, but there's nothing that they need to do. Alien::* and its ilk is always gonna be weird. They'll also fail on VMS and on platforms which have the "wrong" shell. I suggest you submit bug reports and patches.	[reply]
Re^6: Compiling modules for win32 ActivePerl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2009 at 10:45 UTC
I suggest you stop responding to rants, esp when you're uninformed.	[reply]