If you're stuck on Windows and would like to use Inline, but just don't
have the cash or pirating tendencies to get MS Visual C++, there is now
an alternative. I just finished compiling Perl on Win2K with Mingw32/gcc
and dmake in the cmd shell. And Inline-0.40-TRIAL6 worked without a
problem. This solution is completely free of extra money, and now that
I've figured it out it can be free of extra time for you.
Is this of interest to anybody? Let me know, and I'll add some doc for
it.
The next step is to try and resolve the issues of doing this on
WinME/9x. A much more daunting task to be sure. I'm pretty sure Inline
will need a patch for this.
After that I'll spend some spare cycles trying to find out if gcc can
work with ActivePerl. Obviously, there's not as many people out there
using gcc. So sharing your newly creating gcc/Inline gems would be
problematic.
Cheers, Brian
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perl -le 'use Inline C=>q{SV*JAxH(char*x){return newSVpvf
("Just Another %s Hacker",x);}};print JAxH+Perl'
