> > My previous post on this (the above URL) was an attempt to point others toward the > available free resources. For myself, I already owned VC 6, so I just copied all the > VC > 6 include files to the VC Toolkit include dir. I compiled PAR with no problem other > than the "-GF/-Gf" issue. I did not compile Perl. I just used standard ActiveState > and > that is why I noticed the "-GF/-Gf" warning. It's in their Config.pm for 5.8.4. > > However, I stopped using the Toolkit, because under some circumstances (I didn't > determine exactly which) the resulting executable is dependent on msvcr70.dll. That > dll > is already installed on (most?) XP systems, but must be shipped with the executable > to > earlier systems. On the other hand, it can easily be included in the PAR executable > with the -l option. For that matter, so could any dependant dll's from a Cygwin > version. > > Other than being free, I see no benefit of VC Toolkit over VC 6 in the world of > Perl, > and some minor nuisances. > > Alan
ok, then another question.. have you used vc6 to compile perl itself? For some reason, when I use vc6, ..\perl.h has a bunch of incorrect return codes (ie: it expects 'sys/time.h' which doesn't exist, and has 'long long', etc), and I looked through the docs for an equivalent to configure.gnu... Am I doing something braindead, or is the perl build for 5.8.5 really this broken for vc6? Ed
