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Postings from November 1999
Jens Stavnstrup <js@ddre.dk> writes: >To what degree will the upcomming versions of Perl support the Win32 >versions (Mingw, Cygwin and UWIN) now that the new GCC 2.95.2 are >released. It already supports Mingw (which I have tested) and Cygwin (someone else has contributed patches). > >GNU make is included in the MingW32 distribution, That is new! >just as in the >other "unix" compilers. Are you going to make a new makefile for the >windows ditributions (mingw32/cygwin & uwin), so we can start using the >standard gnu make utillity ? A reasonable idea. I will grab a new Mingw32 distribution and see about checking in a GNUmakefile to go alongside Makefile (nmake) and makefile.mk (dmake). With a little care that should also allow a Mingw32 based cross-compiler (e.g. from Linux) to build Win32 perl. The downside is now there are three makefiles to maintain - perhaps it is time to generate them from a common base ... -- Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.Thread Previous