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Hi, In preparing the next Strawberry release you've no doubt noticed that mingw-w64 32bit version cannot build a working Perl after gcc version 4.4.3 on Windows XP. Commit 180422 to the 4.6 branch of gcc fixes the problem - I've cross compiled my own 32bit 4.6.2 release (the tagged 4.6.2 release includes this fix) which compiles a working Perl 5.14.2 on Windows XP. For my own use, I need to move to 4.6.2 as 4.4.7 cannot compile wxWidgets 2.9.x branch. As a side benefit I also get an up to date v2 mingw-w64 crt. I'll be publishing source, patches and build instructions at http://perlmingw.sourceforge.net/ (plus, of course, the compiled releases). The patches are just the minimum necessary from sezero build and TDM GCC builds to get a working dist. Just a thought, but it might be nice if we had a sort of 'standard' gcc for Perl on Windows. Anyhow, I think you could just backport the fix to the current 4.4.7 branch. But, for what it is worth, Strawberry users will be unable to compile wxWidgets 2.9.x branches (without some patching at least) Hope it helps MarkThread Next