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Re^8: DBD:Mysql compilation failed on windowsby syphilis (Archbishop) |
on Mar 13, 2022 at 04:15 UTC ( [id://11142063]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I suppose that it is possible that AS has switched compliers? In the beginning, they produced perls built using MSVC++ version 6.0. Later on, IIRC, even though their perls were still being built by a Microsoft Compiler, it became possible to ppm install mingw, which would install a mingw port of gcc. That gcc compiler could then be used to build perl extensions (XS modules), etc. This was facilitated by software that shipped with the AS perl distro and provided the same capability as provided by ExtUtils::FakeConfig. Later again, ActiveState started building their perls with a mingw port of gcc, but I'm not sure when that change actually happened. I, too, still have an AS build of perl 5.24 - specifically a 64-bit perl-5.24.1 built with gcc-4.6.3. I know it's an AS build because the perl -V output contains: To me, it looks unlikely that ActiveState ever provided an MSVC-built perl-5.24.1 - but I don't really know. Cheers, Rob
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