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authorAlain Barbet <alian@cpan.org>2002-10-18 17:29:29 +0200
committerhv <hv@crypt.org>2002-10-22 15:52:40 +0000
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Re: Smoke 18027 FAIL(F) MSWin32 5.0 Win2000Pro (MSWin32-x86)
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@@ -138,15 +138,26 @@ The nmake that comes with the Platform SDK will suffice for building
Perl. Make sure you are building within one of the "Build Environment"
shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu.
-=item Mingw32 with GCC
+=item MinGW32 with gcc
-GCC-2.95.2 binaries can be downloaded from:
+The latest release of MinGW (at the time of writing) is 2.0.0, which comes
+with gcc-3.2, and can be downloaded here:
- ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
+
+Perl compiles with earlier releases of gcc (2.95 and up) that can be
+downloaded from the same place. If you use gcc-3.2, comment out the
+line:
+
+ USE_GCC_V3_2 *= define
+
+in win32\makefile.mk
You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.
-The GCC-2.95.2 bundle comes with Mingw32 libraries and headers.
+=item MinGW release 1
+
+The MinGW-1.1 bundle comes with gcc-2.95.3.
Make sure you install the binaries that work with MSVCRT.DLL as indicated
in the README for the GCC bundle. You may need to set up a few environment