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authorCurtis Jewell <perl@csjewell.fastmail.us>2010-03-30 23:54:44 -0700
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-04-02 14:02:05 -0400
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Specifying when the trimmed down Win64 compiler works.
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NOTE: If you're using a 32-bit compiler to build perl on a 64-bit Windows
operating system, then you should set the WIN64 environment variable to "undef".
+Also, the trimmed down compiler only passes tests when USE_ITHREADS *= define
+(as opposed to undef) and when the CFG *= Debug line is commented out.
This port fully supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that
is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be