Yes, I am confused. Please bear with me. I need to adapt the makefile.pl from a module from CPAN so it can build with ActivePerl, and modified the file according to the makefile.pl for my own module. My reward was a spew of compilation errors from various header files in the Perl distribution.
In my own makefile.pl I have for some reason shortcutted the CCFLAGS that comes with ActivePerl, so all those standard settings like -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT are not present. And I get away with it. After some investigation I find that if I have #include <windows.h> before the #include of the Perl header files, I don't need all those defines for the module to compile. (Which I have to say is somewhat bewildering.) But just because it works, does not mean that it is best practice. Since PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT is defined in CCFLAGS, I guess that is what I should rely on. I appreciate any comment. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
