BTW, I use Inline on Cygwin without problems (well, maybe every now and
then, but basically whatever you have will probably work)
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>From: Brian Ingerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Good News for *Poor* Users of Windows
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:38:52 -0700
>
>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
>
>--
>perl -le 'use Inline C=>q{SV*JAxH(char*x){return newSVpvf
>("Just Another %s Hacker",x);}};print JAxH+Perl'
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