A port of dmake for win32 platforms is available from:
- ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/dmake-4.1-win32.zip
+ http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-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
The GCC-2.95.2 bundle comes with Mingw32 libraries and headers.
-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).
+Make sure you install the binaries that work with MSVCRT.DLL 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.
enable the appropriate option in the makefile. des_fcrypt() is not
bundled with the distribution due to US Government restrictions
on the export of cryptographic software. Nevertheless, this routine
-is part of the "libdes" library (written by Ed Young) which is widely
+is part of the "libdes" library (written by Eric Young) which is widely
available worldwide, usually along with SSLeay (for example:
"ftp://fractal.mta.ca/pub/crypto/SSLeay/DES/"). Set CRYPT_SRC to the
name of the file that implements des_fcrypt(). Alternatively, if
Entries in the former override entries in the latter. One or more of the
following entries (of type REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ) may be set:
- lib-$] version-specific path to add to @INC
- lib path to add to @INC
- sitelib-$] version-specific path to add to @INC
- sitelib path to add to @INC
+ lib-$] version-specific standard library path to add to @INC
+ lib standard library path to add to @INC
+ sitelib-$] version-specific site library path to add to @INC
+ sitelib site library path to add to @INC
+ vendorlib-$] version-specific vendor library path to add to @INC
+ vendorlib vendor library path to add to @INC
PERL* fallback for all %ENV lookups that begin with "PERL"
Note the C<$]> in the above is not literal. Substitute whatever version
-of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.00502>. Paths must be
+of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.6.0>. Paths must be
separated with semicolons, as usual on win32.
=item File Globbing
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/NI-S/Make-0.03.tar.gz
+You may also use dmake. See L</"Borland C++"> above on how to get it.
+
Note that MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different syntax
depending on what 'make' it thinks you are using. Therefore, it is
important that one of the following values appears in Config.pm:
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. In particular,
-C<kill(0,$pid)> will kill the process identified by C<$pid> (unlike
-on Unix). This behavior may change in future.
+used to set the exit-status of the terminated process. However,
+a signal of 0 can be used to safely check if the specified process
+exists, as on Unix.
=item *