Thank you so much Sisyphus, for guiding me through MinGW and the needed
ExtUtils-FakeConfig-0.06 as well as your directions. It all came
together. I was able to compile par, install it and create an
executable with it.
The versions in particular were MinGW-4.1.0.exe,
ExtUtils-FakeConfig-0.06 and PAR-0.89 on Windows XP Pro.
There is one thing I had to do though. I had to go into file
c:\mingw\include io.h and change
_CRTIMP int __cdecl mkdir (const char*);
to
_CRTIMP int __cdecl mkdir (const char*, int);
because I was getting complaints about mkdir requiring two arguements.
I don't know C so I am doing this blindly. It may crash other things.
Still, it worked with compiling PAR, so ...
Again, thank you Sisyphus.
