Tye McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Excerpts from the mail message of Billy Patton: >) >) I'm trying to get my XS, written and used on a SUN, >) to transport to my pc at home. DOes anyone have >) an example Makefile.PL for winders98, MSVC5.0 and >) ActiveState perl 5.6* > >The Makefile.PL should be completely independant of operating >system, compiler, etc. > >Note that building Perl modules under Windows98 sucks because >command.com sucks (doesn't support && and >&). If you can >upgrade to WinNT, Win2K, WinXP, then you'll have better luck.
All true. Also if I recall correctly MSVC5.0 (without service packs) is a bit buggy - one must not use optimization. > >Alternately, you can try to find a replacement shell (sorry, >I don't have a recommendation) or work around the several >problems that you'll likely run into (usually by patching >things in ExtUtils). > >Tye -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/