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
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