X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.win32;h=3d373308d107aa1c05b422ae080a9cfc7f7eef50;hb=664bb207f6bd57f05b66c9abec00898987f7060b;hp=e696ab3e0e11a9f4daec1d41ce54e96c3c38394a;hpb=80252599d4b7fb26eec4e3a0f451b4387c5dcc19;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index e696ab3..3d37330 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ particular, you can safely ignore any information that talks about "Configure". You may also want to look at two other options for building -a perl that will work on Windows NT: the README.cygwin32 and +a perl that will work on Windows NT: the README.cygwin and README.os2 files, which each give a different set of rules to build a Perl that will work on Win32 platforms. Those two methods will probably enable you to build a more Unix-compatible perl, but you @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ instructions carefully. Type "dmake" (or "nmake" if you are using that make). This should build everything. Specifically, it will create perl.exe, -perl.dll (or perlcore.dll), and perlglob.exe at the perl toplevel, and +perl.dll (or perl56.dll), and perlglob.exe at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's under the lib\auto directory. If the build fails for any reason, make sure you have done the previous steps correctly. @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ If some tests do fail, it may be because you are using a different command shell than the native "cmd.exe", or because you are building from a path that contains spaces. So don't do that. +If you are running the tests from a emacs shell window, you may see +failures in op/stat.t. Run "dmake test-notty" in that case. + If you're using the Borland compiler, you may see a failure in op/taint.t arising from the inability to find the Borland Runtime DLLs on the system default path. You will need to copy the DLLs reported by the messages