Glenn Linderman wrote:
On approximately 6/19/2005 11:29 AM, came the following characters
from the keyboard of Robert May:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Sorry, I was gone for a week or so. I have MS VC++ 6.0 and know how
to build the package, but not the whole process for release. Would
that still be helpful? (especially regarding the PAR issue?) I only
have Perl 5.8 installed though, and have never played with having
multiple Perls installed... I'd be willing to try installing 5.6 if
someone can show the way to do multiple Perls.
I'm not really sure what difference using the VC complier makes vs.
the MinGW one. I'm certainly happy about the binary compatibility
issue, but size of the resulting binary may be the deciding factor.
Me neither. I offered, because I (1) have VC++ 6.0 and (2) someone
mentioned some possible incompatibility with PAR and MinGW-built GUI.
I have no idea if this is an issue or not, but, I use PAR and GUI
together, so want it to keep working.
I am having no troubles with my MinGW build and PAR. I asked for
confirmation of the PAR issue on another thread - it may be cygwin related.
I've got the current HEAD revision from CVS comming in at 979KB -
perhaps you would be kind enough to do a build using VC and let us
know the size of GUI.dll.
OK, I did that....
06/19/2005 02:21p 860,240 GUI.dll
1 File(s) 860,240 bytes
So it seems that VC++ is a little more compact for whatever reason.
Indeed. I'm not sure what to make of that.
In the mean time I'll go to the pain of downloading the SDK and
commandline tools from micosoft, and installing them on a WIn2k
system so that I can do that build too.
Hmm. Is MS VC++ 6.0 available from MS as a download? I didn't think
they started that until VC++ 7.0 ...
The .net command line tools (no IDE) are available for free download
from microsoft at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
Thanks for your assistance.
Rob.
