> I have a machine with Windows 10 64-bit 1803, ActivePerl* 5.24.3, and > ActiveTcl 8.6.7. > > *(Uses dmake and doesn't have gnu make. I'm not constrained > to > ActivePerl; I just didn't know about Strawberry until recently.)
If you think that "dmake" is source of trouble, then we can add workaround in Makefile.PL to handle your case. You can add a code that checks these vars $? and $! differently fortunately, our Makefile.PL already has a stub to deal with dmake, so you can benefit from it. Regards, Vadim