Borland C++ version 5.02 or later
Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2 or later
- Mingw32 with EGCS versions 1.0.2, 1.1
- Mingw32 with GCC version 2.8.1
+ Mingw32 with GCC version 2.95.2 or better
-The last two of these are high quality freeware compilers. Support
-for them is still experimental.
+The last of these is a high quality freeware compiler. Support
+for it is still experimental. (Older versions of GCC are known
+not to work.)
This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that
is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be
ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/dmake-4.1-win32.zip
+(This is a fixed version of original dmake sources obtained from
+http://www.wticorp.com/dmake/. As of version 4.1PL1, the original
+sources did not build as shipped, and had various other problems.
+A patch is included in the above fixed version.)
+
Fetch and install dmake somewhere on your path (follow the instructions
in the README.NOW file).
latter step is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default
make for building extensions using MakeMaker.
-=item Mingw32 with EGCS or GCC
+=item Mingw32 with GCC
-ECGS binaries can be downloaded from:
+GCC-2.95.2 binaries can be downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/
-GCC-2.8.1 binaries are available from:
-
- http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/
+The GCC-2.95.2 bundle comes with Mingw32 libraries and headers.
-You only need either one of those, not both. Both bundles come with
-Mingw32 libraries and headers. While both of them work to build perl,
-the EGCS binaries are currently favored by the maintainers, since they
-come with more up-to-date Mingw32 libraries.
-
-Make sure you install the binaries as indicated in the web sites
-above. You will need to set up a few environment variables (usually
-run from a batch file).
+Make sure you install the binaries as indicated in the README for
+the GCC bundle. You may need to set up a few environment variables
+(usually run from a batch file).
You also need dmake. See L</"Borland C++"> above on how to get it.
perl Makefile.PL CAPI=TRUE
PERL_OBJECT requires VC++ 5.0 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or later. It
-is not yet supported under GCC or EGCS. WARNING: Binaries built with
+is not yet supported under GCC. WARNING: Binaries built with
PERL_OBJECT enabled are B<not> compatible with binaries built without.
Perl installs PERL_OBJECT binaries under a distinct architecture name,
so they B<can> coexist, though.
C<raise()>, i.e. it doesn't send a signal to the identified process
like it does on Unix platforms. Instead it immediately calls
C<TerminateProcess(process,signal)>. Thus the signal argument is
-used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. This behavior
-may change in future.
+used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. In particular,
+C<kill(0,$pid)> will kill the process identified by C<$pid> (unlike
+on Unix). This behavior may change in future.
=item *
Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>
-Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@umich.eduE<gt>
+Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>
Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>nick@ni-s.u-net.comE<gt>
This port was originally contributed by Gary Ng around 5.003_24,
and borrowed from the Hip Communications port that was available
-at the time.
-
-Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy have made numerous and
-sundry hacks since then.
+at the time. Various people have made numerous and sundry hacks
+since then.
Borland support was added in 5.004_01 (Gurusamy Sarathy).
Support for PERL_OBJECT was added in 5.005 (ActiveState Tool Corp).
-Last updated: 18 January 1999
+Support for fork() emulation was added in 5.6 (ActiveState Tool Corp).
-=cut
+Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
+
+Last updated: 28 December 1999
+=cut
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