On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Foo Ji-Haw wrote:
Hello all,
I recently stumbled upon this Perl distribution called PXPerl (for Windows). It
sounds amazing, offering to compile modules directly from CPAN (and works with
3 major free compilers).
But I gotta ask this: I've been using ActivePerl + modperl for the longest
time. Can modperl work with PXPerl or any other distribution for the matter? If
so, how is it done? I hope it's not through (gulp) source code compilation!
As a general rule of thumb, it's a good idea to compile
extensions with the same compiler as was used to build Perl
(and, for mod_perl, the same compiler as was used to build
Apache). The mod_perl ppm packages available from
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ are compiled with
VC++ 6, as that's what's used to build ActivePerl; if
you use another compiler (even the freely available VC++ 7),
you should compile mod_perl from the sources yourself.
If you go this route and run into problems with the
compilation, certainly post the details to this list.
--
best regards,
randy kobes
