I ran configure.com and selected large integer support but not maximal and not large double.
DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2.vms]vmsish.h;1 copied to DISK$USERS:[PFAU.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]vmsish.h;1 (58 blocks) CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/NAMES=(AS_IS,SHORTENED)/Define=(PERL_CORE,_USE_STD_STAT=1) MINIPERLMAIN.C #undef" NV_PRESERVES_UV ......^ An unexpected newline character is present in a string literal. at line number 4525 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]config.h;1 #undef" NV_PRESERVES_UV .......................^ "#undef" directive is not followed by an identifier and is being ignored. at line number 4525 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]config.h;1 Error status %X10B91262 occurred when updating target MINIPERLMAIN.OBJ Removing the quote character allows the build to proceed past this point. Configure.com line 5668 contains the following: $ d_nv_preserves_uv = "undef"" The double quotation mark at the end gets parsed as a quotation mark inserted into the string. MCR SYS$DISK:[]generate_uudmap.exe uudmap.h bitcount.h mg_data.h Action did not update target BITCOUNT.H Action did not update target MG_DATA.H I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/NAMES=(AS_IS,SHORTENED)/Def ine=(PERL_CORE,_USE_STD_STAT=1) NUMERIC.C return NV_MAX; ...................^ In this statement, floating-point overflow occurs in evaluating the expression "1.189731495357231765085759326628007016196477e4932l". at line number 810 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]numeric.c;1 Error status %X10B91260 occurred when updating target NUMERIC.OBJ I can get past this if I use MMK/IGNORE=WARNING. CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/NAMES=(AS_IS,SHORTENED)/Def ine=(PERL_CORE,_USE_STD_STAT=1) PP.C NV (*func)(NV) = Perl_sin; .....................^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In the initializer for func, the referenced type of the pointer value "sinl" is "function (long double) returning long double", which is not compatible with "function (double) returning double". at line number 2691 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp.c;1 func = Perl_cos; ........^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "cosl" is "function (long double) returning long doub le", which is not compatible with "function (double) returning double". at line number 2697 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp.c;1 func = Perl_exp; ........^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "expl" is "function (long double) returning long doub le", which is not compatible with "function (double) returning double". at line number 2701 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp.c;1 func = Perl_log; ........^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "logl" is "function (long double) returning long doub le", which is not compatible with "function (double) returning double". at line number 2705 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp.c;1 func = Perl_sqrt; ........^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "sqrtl" is "function (long double) returning long dou ble", which is not compatible with "function (double) returning double". at line number 2710 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp.c;1 CC/DECC/NOANSI_ALIAS /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj=.obj/NoList/float=ieee/ieee=denorm/NAMES=(AS_IS,SHORTENED)/Def ine=(PERL_CORE,_USE_STD_STAT=1) PP_PACK.C cdouble = Perl_modf(cdouble / anv, &trouble) * anv; ..........................^ %CC-W-PTRMISMATCH, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer value "&trouble" is "double", which is not compatible with "long double". at line number 2221 in file DISK$USERS:[pfau.FREEWARE.perl-5_16_2]pp_pack.c;1 Not sure if these will become problems but I would guess they will be. At this point miniperl gets built ok and it starts to build modules. I'll have more when I hit those errors. -- Thomas Pfau tfp...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspfau http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/