----- Original Message ----- From: "Foo JH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Veli-Pekka Tätilä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Up-to-date Alternatives to Tiny Perl? (Was: PERL on a CD)
> This is encouraging. Do you know if the free version of the MS compiler > will work as well? When that compiler was first made available it was (I think) version 7.1. Now (I think) it's version 8.0. I haven't used that compiler at all. I do know that others are happily using it (presumably both 7.1 and 8.0) to build XS modules (extensions) with ActiveState perl. But I don't know of *anyone* who has used that free compiler to build perl itself. The README.win32 in the perl source has detailed instructions on how to build perl using that free compiler - but I've not seen anyone actually come out and say "yes, I followed those instructions and it worked". If you want to build perl using a free compiler then, imho, it's far easier to use MinGW and dmake .... and I *do* know that building perl that way is trivial. You'll find dmake at http://search.cpan.org/~shay/dmake-4.5-20060619-SHAY/ and MinGW at www.mingw.org . Still - if anyone who has already downloaded the free MS compiler likes to try to build perl using that compiler, then a report on the exercise would be a most welcome read. I might even try it myself, despite the fact that the task of downloading the compiler (and its bits and pieces) looks distinctly unpleasant. Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
