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| author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-05-22 08:24:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-05-22 17:12:37 +0100 |
| commit | c8732df9f3d97961edd6849c3b2f64b6421a6ec3 (patch) | |
| tree | 890ff8a759633655b237c3aaeebf7b7a7ee4ef5f | |
| parent | b54db2a037dcea55aeb502be750fd3e3b7507e72 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c8732df9f3d97961edd6849c3b2f64b6421a6ec3.tar.gz | |
Note that the minimum supported gcc (on Windows) is 3.4.5
Earlier versions (from www.mingw.org, at least) will build perl, but have
a linker bug that causes various tests to fail due to problems with
SDBM_File.dll. See perl #121936 for details.
(cherry picked from commit bf537ce68dee63d81957c87b81c78c2b32d223de)
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | win32/makefile.mk | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 379ab7394d..73c67a0cfc 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ system). Currently, this port is capable of using one of the following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture: Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later - Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 3.2 or later + Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 3.4.5 or later Gcc by mingw-w64.sf.net gcc version 4.4.3 or later Note that the last two of these are actually competing projects both @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu. =item MinGW release 3 with gcc -Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x +Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.4.5 and later). It can be downloaded here: L<http://www.mingw.org/> diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk index 864cd253f1..abe960dc39 100644 --- a/win32/makefile.mk +++ b/win32/makefile.mk @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # Makefile to build perl on Windows using DMAKE. # Supported compilers: # Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or later -# MinGW with gcc-3.2 or later +# MinGW with gcc-3.4.5 or later # Windows SDK 64-bit compiler and tools # # This is set up to build a perl.exe that runs off a shared library @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ USE_LARGE_FILES *= define #CCTYPE = MSVC110 # Visual C++ 2012 Express Edition (aka Visual C++ 11.x) (free version) #CCTYPE = MSVC110FREE -# MinGW or mingw-w64 with gcc-3.2 or later +# MinGW or mingw-w64 with gcc-3.4.5 or later CCTYPE *= GCC # |