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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2014-05-22 08:24:47 +0100
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2014-05-22 08:24:47 +0100
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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.
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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture:
Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later
Intel C++ Compiler (experimental)
- 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
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ 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/>