Hi Brian, >> Hi all, >> >> Perhaps a little off topic, but I'm configuring ActivePerl and the >> PDK on my first Windows 2003 64-bit machine. For 32-bit Windows, I've >> downloaded nmake from Microsoft, but this appears to be a 32-bit only >> utility. > > What do you mean by 'configuring'? Presumably you are not trying to > build Perl as 64 bit versions are available for download, and I expect > that 64 bit versions of the PDK are available as well.
Apologies for my lack of precision. By configuring, I mean I'm building the various custom modules I need in a Perl install that are not included by default in ActivePerl. None of these require compilation, just the use of a make utility. I've got ActivePerl 64-bit installed and operational, so I'm just looking for a mechanism for rolling modules that require use of a 'make' style utility. >> Is there a 64-bit version of nmake available? If there's not, can >> anyone recommend a version of make for Windows? From previous >> experience, make under cygwin isn't applicable. > > Why do you need a 64 bit version of nmake? Surely the 64 bit OS can > run > 32 bit programs? > > Perhaps you could explain what you need nmake for, and why it needs to > be 64 bit. I would not have asked if it were capable of running it. The nmake15.exe referred to by various KnowledgeBase articles, once downloaded and run, exits with an error that it is a valid binary, but not for the platform it is running on. Up until now I've had customers using 32-bit PDK compiled applications running on 64-bit Windows, but I appear to have some code now which doesn't work well with the (ironically named) WOW64 compatibility layer. Having done some research this is not unheard of. If anyone has experience in utilities available that provide 'make' functionality that can be run on 64-bit Windows I'd appreciate their feedback. Cheers, Preston. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
