Hi, On 2023-03-26 21:13:41 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2023, at 5:28 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > >> On 2023-03-26 12:39:08 -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > >> First: I am *not* arguing we shouldn't repair building against strawberry > >> perl > >> with mingw. > > > > Hm - can you describe the failure more - I just tried, and it worked to > > build > > against strawberry perl on mingw, without any issues. All I did was set > > -DPERL="c:/strawberrly/perl/bin/perl.exe".
> That might be the secret sauce I’m missing. I will be offline for a day or > three, will test when I’m back. It should suffice to put strawberry perl first in PATH. All that the -DPERL does is to use that, instead of 'perl' from PATH. If putting strawberry perl ahead in PATH failed, something else must have been going on... Greetings, Andres Freund
