> The reason the manifest binding was disabled for 64-bit was that the
> free compiler included in the Windows 2003 R2 Platform SDK is a
variant
> of VS2005 that links against the 64-bit version of MSVCRT.dll that is
> part of Windows itself and not against the compiler specific
> MSVCR80.dll.
I learned that on PerlMonks when wondering how the stuff that came with
ActiveState Perl could possibly have been built.
It appears that the code that looks for a generated .manifest file is
version insensitive, so no reason not to do that.
I could not find any "option" or configuration to tell cpan/Make/Module
whatever which compiler to use, if several are on the machine.
Finally, I downloaded the latest ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.50, and "test"
hangs after
...
t/problems..............ok
t/prompt................ok
t/recurs................ok 11/26
that is, it doesn't issue a newline or print any more, and is not using
any CPU time.
Thanks,
--John
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