These packages can all be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en
-Note that the "Platform SDK February 2003" download requires Internet Explorer
-5.0 to function. Alternatively, the very latest version at the time of writing
-(called "Windows XP Service Pack 2 Platform SDK RC2") is now available as an
-ISO-9660 CD image file and does not require IE5 to be downloaded but will only
-work on Windows XP.
+The Platform SDK packages can also be obtained from the Platform SDK Update
+site: http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate Note that this
+site requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later to function, but the site's home
+page currently gives links to two download pages for users of other browsers:
+
+For Windows XP Service Pack 2:
+http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/XPSP2FULLInstall.htm
+
+For Windows Server 2003:
+http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
According to the download pages the Toolkit and the .NET Framework SDK are only
supported on Windows 2000/XP/2003, so trying to use these tools on Windows
=item *
lib.exe is normally used to build libraries, but link.exe with the /lib
-option also works, so create a batch file called lib.bat in
+option also works, so change win32/config.vc to use it instead:
+
+Change the line reading:
+
+ ar='lib'
+
+to:
+
+ ar='link /lib'
+
+It may also be useful to create a batch file called lib.bat in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin containing:
@echo off
link /lib %*
-This will work as long as "lib.exe" is invoked simply as "lib" (which it is
-during the Perl build process).
+for the benefit of any naughty C extension modules that you might want to build
+later which explicitly reference "lib" rather than taking their value from
+$Config{ar}.
=item *
Then copy setargv.obj to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\lib
+Alternatively, if you don't need perlglob.exe and don't need to enable the
+USE_SETARGV option then you can safely just remove all mention of $(GLOBEXE)
+from win32/Makefile and setargv.obj won't be required anyway.
+
=back
Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that
file to comment-out CCTYPE = MSVC60 (since that enables delay-loading of the
Winsock DLL which the free toolkit does not support) and to set CCHOME,
-CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above.
+CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above. You may also want to
+change both mentions of the compiler's "-Gf" switch to "-GF" since the former
+is deprecated in VC7 and will be removed from future versions.
=item Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler
=item MinGW release 1 with gcc
-The MinGW-1.1 bundle contains with gcc-2.95.3.
+The MinGW-1.1 bundle contains gcc-2.95.3.
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
=item Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
+=item Jan Dubois E<lt>jand@activestate.comE<gt>
+
+=item Steve Hay E<lt>steve.hay@uk.radan.comE<gt>
+
=back
-This document is maintained by Gurusamy Sarathy.
+This document is maintained by Jan Dubois.
=head1 SEE ALSO
Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
-Last updated: 30 July 2004
+Last updated: 15 February 2005
=cut
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