chintu17 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings Monks !

I'm working on a legacy Mod Perl codebase and looking for a possibility of porting it to Windows - this is very important part of my assignment. Existing code runs on Linux flavors and uses IPC::MM perl module.

I tried compiling IPC::MM on Windows, it fails with error message: MM.xs:19:16: fatal error: mm.h: No such file or directory. Surely, mm.h is not present on my Windows box (probably because of lack of libmm). Similarly building IPC::MMA failed complaining  os unsupported.

Is there any way, even possibility of porting the IPC::MM or IPC::MMA modules on Windows? Any suggestions, pointers would greatly help.

I'm using ActivePerl 5.8.8 and gcc 4.6.2 on Windows 7.

Thanks and best regards, -Chintu-

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Re: IPC::MM or IPC::MMA for Windows
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 27, 2012 at 18:20 UTC

    You might be able to substitute Win32::MMF::Shareable on Windows.

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