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From: "Sisyphus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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>
> I've never struck anything like this before when building a perl module
and
> have no idea where to begin.
> (As I mentioned earlier there's no problem with PAR-0.64 on ActiveState
perl
> 5.8 - build 802 to be precise.)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>

I finally got it built on my msvc-built perl 5.6.1, but the process was not
pretty :-)

Figuring that there's something wrong with the generated makefile(s), I ran
'perl makefile.pl' using perl5.8. That meant that the generated makefiles
contained a couple of references to perl58.lib that had to be changed to
perl56.lib. There was also a stack of other perl paths that had to be
changed to point to the 5.6.1 perl installation. And there was a reference
to ExtUtils::Command::MM (which doesn't exist in perl 5.6.1) that had to be
taken care of.
With that done, 'nmake', 'nmake test', and 'nmake install' all proceeded
smoothly and 'pp', at least, is working like it should.
If I'm feeling sufficiently energetic and/or clever I'll try to get a proper
understanding of the problem .... unless someone would like to save me the
trouble :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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