Re^8: win32::printer 5.16 will not install

[bulk88]

in reply to Re^7: win32::printer 5.16 will not install
in thread win32::printer 5.16 will not install

I guess Win32::Printer is not GCC compatible, MS C only. Instead of Mingw, try MS's free Platform SDK package that includes cl.exe and link.exe (the MS C compiler progs).

[Anonymous Monk]

FWIW, mingw does #define __try1/__except1 in excpt.h, but I couldn't make it work

So I opted for the first of these (comment out)
RubyForge: Win32 Utils: Detail: 27692 win32-service install error with 1.9.1
Structured Exception Handling and MinGW - ProgrammingUnlimited.Net
c++ - Porting VC++'s __try/__except EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW to MinGW - Stack Overflow/
LibSEH - a Windows SEH compatibility library - ProgrammingUnlimited.Net