Re^5: Interactive perl on windows

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in thread Interactive perl on windows

The first issue on windows 7 is that you need to use dmake, not nmake

The operating system is not the controlling factor, the perl -V:make entry is, which you can override with perl Makefile.PL MAKE=nmake or perl Makefile.PL MAKE=dmake ...

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Re^6: Interactive perl on windows by horsegoalie (Initiate) on Mar 31, 2011 at 17:11 UTC
You are right, and my lack of experience is showing through here. The rest of the cpan/activestate packages we use compile fine without needing to change the compiler flag. For an inexperienced user, the psh install was not nearly as transparent as tksh, tk, or many other packages.	[reply]

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