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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-01-03 23:30:57 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-01-03 23:31:37 +0000
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downloadperl-5398666e2f464a280d839dd05997123b4d99b1e0.tar.gz
Add support for building with VC++ 2012
No code changes seem to be required, so it's just a matter of noting that we've tried it, it works, and we'll support it :-)
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@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ that are also supported by perl's makefile.
=back
The Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given away free. They are
-available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010 Express
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010/2012 Express
Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK") and are the same
compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional" or "Visual C++
-2005/2008/2010 Professional" respectively.
+2005/2008/2010/2012 Professional" respectively.
This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ and edit win32/config.vc to change "make=nmake" into "make=dmake". The
latter step is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default
make for building extensions using MakeMaker.
-=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010 Express Edition
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 Express Edition
-These free versions of Visual C++ 2008/2010 Professional contain the same
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 Professional contain the same
compilers and linkers that ship with the full versions, and also contain
everything necessary to build Perl, rather than requiring a separate download
of the Windows SDK like previous versions did.
@@ -143,9 +143,9 @@ L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing ex
links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
changing so often.)
-Install Visual C++ 2008/2010 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
+Install Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
+ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
(assuming the default installation location was chosen).
@@ -890,6 +890,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
-Last updated: 10 September 2011
+Last updated: 02 January 2012
=cut