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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Monday, June 3, 2002 6:50:53 pm by perry
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@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@
 Mingw32 with GCC version 2.95.2 or better 
 The last of these is a high quality freeware compiler. Support for it is still experimental. (Older versions of GCC are known not to work.) 
  
  
-This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules 
+This port currently supports ! MakeMaker (the set of modules 
 that is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you 
 should be able to build and install most extensions found in 
 the CPAN sites. See ``Usage Hints'' below for 
 general hints about this. 
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@
  
  
 If you are using the Borland compiler, you will need dmake. 
 (The make that Borland supplies is seriously crippled and 
-will not work for MakeMaker builds.) 
+will not work for ! MakeMaker builds.) 
  
  
 See ``Make'' above. 
  
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@
 directory name under which the Visual C dmake configuration 
 lives) in your environment and edit win32/config.vc to 
 change ``make=nmake'' into ``make=dmake''. The latter step 
 is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default 
-make for building extensions using MakeMaker. 
+make for building extensions using ! MakeMaker. 
  
  
 Mingw32 with GCC 
  
@@ -213,10 +213,10 @@
 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 
+ 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 
  
  
 __Building__ 
  
@@ -413,10 +413,10 @@
  
  
 If you want perl to use globbing that emulates the quirks of 
 DOS filename conventions, you might want to 
-consider using File::DosGlob to override the internal  
-''glob()'' implementation. See File::DosGlob for 
+consider using File::! DosGlob to override the internal  
+''glob()'' implementation. See File::! DosGlob for 
 details. 
  
  
 Using perl from the command line 
@@ -555,17 +555,17 @@
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/NI-S/Make-0.03.tar.gz 
 You may also use dmake. See ``Make'' above on how to get it. 
  
  
-Note that MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different 
+Note that ! MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different 
 syntax depending on what 'make' it thinks you are using. 
 Therefore, it is important that one of the following values 
 appears in Config.pm: 
  
  
- make='nmake' # MakeMaker emits nmake syntax  
-make='dmake' # MakeMaker emits dmake syntax  
-any other value # MakeMaker emits generic make syntax 
+ make='nmake' # ! MakeMaker emits nmake syntax  
+make='dmake' # ! MakeMaker emits dmake syntax  
+any other value # ! MakeMaker emits generic make syntax 
 (e.g GNU make, or Perl make) 
 If the value doesn't match the 'make' program you want to use, edit Config.pm to fix it. 
  
  
@@ -635,12 +635,12 @@
 steps shown in the previous section. 
  
  
 To ensure smooth transitioning of existing code that uses 
-the ActiveState port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions  
-that contains all of the ActiveState extensions and most 
+the ! ActiveState port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions  
+that contains all of the ! ActiveState extensions and most 
 other Win32 extensions from CPAN in source 
-form, along with many added bugfixes, and with MakeMaker 
+form, along with many added bugfixes, and with ! MakeMaker 
 support. This bundle is available at: 
  
  
  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/libwin32-0.151.zip 
@@ -693,9 +693,9 @@
 If you use the 4DOS/NT or similar command shell, note that 
 ``pl2bat'' uses the ``%*'' variable in the generated batch 
 file to refer to all the command line arguments, so you may 
 need to make sure that construct works in batch files. As of 
-this writing, 4DOS/NT users will need a ``ParameterChar = 
+this writing, 4DOS/NT users will need a ``! ParameterChar = 
 *'' statement in their 4NT.INI file or will need to execute 
 ``setdos /p*'' in the 4DOS/NT startup file to enable this to 
 work. 
  
@@ -824,17 +824,17 @@
 Ing-Simmons). 
  
  
 Support for PERL_OBJECT was added in 5.005 
-(ActiveState Tool Corp). 
+(! ActiveState Tool Corp). 
  
  
 Support for ''fork()'' emulation was added in 5.6 
-(ActiveState Tool Corp). 
+(! ActiveState Tool Corp). 
  
  
 Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin 
 Stuhl). 
  
  
 Last updated: 1 April 2001 
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