Hello, I just wanna share the info below I got from PAR maillist. I found it very intersting, since sometimes you need to install/compile yourself some CPAN modules Instead of "closing fingers" to find a pre-built version of that module via ppm :-)
Cheers, José. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 3:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting the free Microsoft compiler to compile PAR Even though Autrijus kindly supplies pre-compiled PAR packages, I always roll my own and I have been using VC++ 6.0. I'm sure there are other Windows users who might if it were free, so I tried the free (and newer) Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, also known as VC++ 7. I found, as many have, that it is missing some pieces. There are a number of Windows header files not in the include dir (gee, why would Microsoft think a Windows compiler should need Windows headers ?!?), and a couple utilities not in the bin dir. They can be gotten for free from the SDK. Here is a good description from some Tcl people on finding all the pieces: http://wiki.tcl.tk/11431 Be aware that it takes a couple of Gigabytes of disk space to download and install the SDK, while you only need about 25 Megabytes of stuff from the include/bin dirs for Perl/PAR stuff. I installed it, copied what I needed to the Toolkit dirs and uninstalled the SDK. The Tcl discussion notes that some compiler options have changed. I got no errors with PAR/ActivePerl 5.6.1, but with PAR/ActivePerl 5.8.4 I got a warning about -Gf being deprecated in favor of -GF. I changed both occurances of -Gf to -GF in Config.pm and built clean. You could also just ignore the warning. It still works. HTH Alan Stewart **** DISCLAIMER **** "This e-mail and any attachment thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by other persons than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer". Thank you for your cooperation. For further information about Proximus mobile phone services please see our website at http://www.proximus.be or refer to any Proximus agent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
