On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:
Kurt George Gjerde wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:
On the other hand, the win32 users seem to be very spoiled ;)
Yes, we are. Absolutely :)
;)
Is it so much of a trouble to build the thing by themselves if copy-n-paste instructions are given?
Maybe not, but we need to shell out $500 - $1000 to Microsoft to get the "Visual Studio" :( (that is, if we want to keep the benefits of ActivePerl, I guess).
So any other open source compilers don't cut? (gcc?)
Unfortunately, not in general.... I've heard on some Win32 perl users mailing lists some limited success with certain xs-based modules at using a compiler other than VC++ with ActivePerl, but this success seems accidental, almost. There was some initial excitement at M$ releasing for free a version of VC++ 7 with a .NET development kit (with optimizations disabled), but it turns out this requires some gymnastics to work with VC++ 6 (which ActivePerl is compiled with), if indeed it works at all. So to be safe, one would have to shell out for VC++ 6 ...
Back in the Uni, we worked with Borland products. I'm not sure whether they are still around and useful (I guess TurboC is a dinosaur ;)
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