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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 5afafc5bbb..2b3cbbdf64 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture: Borland C++ version 5.02 or later Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later - Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 2.95.2 or later + Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 3.2 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 delivering complete gcc toolchain for MS Windows: - http://mingw.org - delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows - platform. Use version 3.2.x or later for the best results with this - compiler. + platform. - http://mingw-w64.sf.net - delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64" @@ -326,55 +325,13 @@ shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu. =item MinGW release 3 with gcc -The latest release of MinGW at the time of writing is 3.1.0, which contains -gcc-3.2.3. It can be downloaded here: +Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x +and later). It can be downloaded here: http://www.mingw.org/ -Perl also compiles with earlier releases of gcc (2.95.2 and up). See below -for notes about using earlier versions of MinGW/gcc. - -And perl also compiles with gcc-4.3.0 and up, and perhaps even some of the -earlier 4.x.x versions. - You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it. -=item MinGW release 1 with gcc - -The MinGW-1.1 bundle contains 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 -variables (usually ran from a batch file). - -There are a couple of problems with the version of gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.exe -released 7 November 1999: - -=over - -=item * - -It left out a fix for certain command line quotes. To fix this, be sure -to download and install the file fixes/quote-fix-msvcrt.exe from the above -ftp location. - -=item * - -The definition of the fpos_t type in stdio.h may be wrong. If your -stdio.h has this problem, you will see an exception when running the -test t/lib/io_xs.t. To fix this, change the typedef for fpos_t from -"long" to "long long" in the file i386-mingw32msvc/include/stdio.h, -and rebuild. - -=back - -A potentially simpler to install (but probably soon-to-be-outdated) bundle -of the above package with the mentioned fixes already applied is available -here: - - http://downloads.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip - ftp://ftp.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip - =back =head2 Building @@ -1007,6 +964,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl). Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp). -Last updated: 29 August 2007 +Last updated: 6 August 2010 =cut |