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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-29 19:13:52 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-29 19:13:52 +0000
commita8deba26610ac9d6097c62e020502f4cc7ee6576 (patch)
treef40509ba512464ef5876d9bcb9e0e6303f3c75ea /win32
parent406af250a711dc7c2d11536556d31a2d9433b19f (diff)
downloadperl-a8deba26610ac9d6097c62e020502f4cc7ee6576.tar.gz
explain various win32 build caveats more clearly
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2391
Diffstat (limited to 'win32')
-rw-r--r--win32/Makefile5
-rw-r--r--win32/makefile.mk5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/win32/Makefile b/win32/Makefile
index be10a082a4..231f6dc0c4 100644
--- a/win32/Makefile
+++ b/win32/Makefile
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ INST_VER = \5.00553
# Some versions of Visual C don't define MSVCDIR in the environment,
# so you may have to set CCHOME explicitly.
#
+# If the path contains spaces, you can try putting it in double
+# quotes, but support for this is not well-tested, and various
+# other things may break, so you're kinda on your own if you are
+# into specious paths. :-)
+#
#CCHOME = f:\msvc20
CCHOME = $(MSVCDIR)
CCINCDIR = $(CCHOME)\include
diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk
index e74dc687fa..8df1abb972 100644
--- a/win32/makefile.mk
+++ b/win32/makefile.mk
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ CCTYPE *= BORLAND
# Some versions of Visual C don't define MSVCDIR in the environment,
# so you may have to set CCHOME explicitly.
#
+# If the path contains spaces, you can try putting it in double
+# quotes, but support for this is not well-tested, and various
+# other things may break, so you're kinda on your own if you are
+# into specious paths. :-)
+#
CCHOME *= C:\bc5
#CCHOME *= $(MSVCDIR)
#CCHOME *= D:\packages\mingw32