> At the moment the dmake recommend by MakeMaker is the old one > Sarathy put > up on CPAN years ago. The company which made dmake has long > since been > out of business but it seems OpenOffice has picked up the code and is > working on it again.
It appears that in order to copile Sarathy's version on CPAN one needs to apply a patch from CPAN [http://search.cpan.org/src/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.patch ] Now it does not applies cleanly, but it could be adopted however (not tried yet, but sure its doable). Also looks like it must be built with borland compiler: MSVC supported but looks like many modifications are done for borland compiler. Compiling with MSVC works but "dmake.exe" fails to find directory with startup.mk file unless explicitly specified with DMAKEROOT=[path] Just building with Borland compiler 5.0 does not works - not investigated why. > > It would be nice if some brave Windows user could compile up > a Win32 binary > and put it up on CPAN to replace Sarathy's older version. If there will be no brave user within given period of time, I can try afterwards... > Then I wouldn't > have to worry about working around old dmake bugs. don't afraid of new dmake bugs, then? :)
