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author | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2010-08-06 16:44:50 -0700 |
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committer | Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> | 2010-08-06 16:44:50 -0700 |
commit | a18a68bd95c0722bf1f6b41e3867c270ecfd4ef1 (patch) | |
tree | 1ce79bda652855691ec9d2f4c7801b02bd79799b /README.win32 | |
parent | ceb0c6814e4d3b6eebe0e0c01f42f97aca39aa54 (diff) | |
download | perl-a18a68bd95c0722bf1f6b41e3867c270ecfd4ef1.tar.gz |
Don't mention Activeware Perl versions
All Win32::* modules on CPAN now build with standard toolchain
commands; there is no need for "porting" or special build instructions
anymore.
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 2b3cbbdf64..c3aea936f8 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -712,27 +712,6 @@ binary will always expand unquoted command lines, which may not be what you want if you use a shell that does that for you. The expansion done is also somewhat less powerful than the approach suggested above. -=item Windows Specific Extensions - -A number of extensions specific to the Windows platform are available -from CPAN. You may find that many of these extensions are meant to -be used under the Activeware port of Perl, which used to be the only -native port for the Windows platform. Since the Activeware port does not -have adequate support for Perl's extension building tools, these -extensions typically do not support those tools either and, therefore, -cannot be built using the generic steps shown in the previous section. - -To ensure smooth transitioning of existing code that uses the -ActiveState port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions that contains -all of the ActiveState extensions and several other Win32 extensions from -CPAN in source form, along with many added bugfixes, and with MakeMaker -support. The latest version of this bundle is available at: - - http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwin32/ - -See the README in that distribution for building and installation -instructions. - =item Notes on 64-bit Windows Windows .NET Server supports the LLP64 data model on the Intel Itanium |