Doc Schneider wrote, On 11/4/07 9:47 AM: > ARG. I have been trying to get a buildbot slave running on ActivePerl > on Win XP (Pro) but without installing cygein or something like MSVC++ > it won't make things (like spamc/ some perl mods not actually available > from ppg [ppg is AP's only cpan type thing] and all together it is a > b*tch to build without any C tools.) But am wondering if I run the BB > Slave from cygwin would that be good enough to say "this works" on > Win32? Or else I'm going to have to find, again, that free c compiler I > ran across somewhere but didn't bookmark. To make SA install without > using Cygwin. I did bookmark that stolennotebook.com but it doesn't seem > to be all that helpful. Could be just me too. 8*) >
Microsoft has a free (as in beer, not libre) version of Visual C++ 2005 for download at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/ I haven't tried building with this version. The last time I did this I used the free version of Visual C++ 2003. I was sure that there is an option to Makefile.PL to disable building spamc, but that doesn't help you if you need a C compiler to get some necessary module from ppg. It would _not_ be sufficient to test only the Cygwin build, as that has more in common with the *nix builds than it does with Win32 build. It does help to also have Cygwin on the same machine because that allows you to run spamd under Cygwin and configure the Win32 tests to assume a spamd on localhost when doing the spamc tests. -- sidney
