pre-compiled Perl

Mumit Khan khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
Fri Apr 30 18:32:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, dale henderson wrote:

> 
> 
> Will there be a Perl binary distribution for Mingw32?
> If not, the settings for /perl/win32/makefile.mk  in the Perl5
> source distribution are not clear enough for me to get the dmake 
> compile to work.
> Can anyone post their working mingw32 makefile.mk or give
> suggestions?
> 

It's actually quite trivial to build if you have dmake. Just follow
the directions in the makefile.mk and uncomment the GCC-related ones
and comment out the MSVC related ones. I'm attaching one that I
*remember* working (but be prepared to be surprised/shocked).

Regards,
Mumit



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