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On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:27:17PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > The Windows Platform SDK contains 64-bit compilers for x64 (and IA64) > that claim to be VC8, but really aren't. They are earlier versions > of the compiler before VS2005 was released, and they are different in > at least one important aspect: > > The Platform SDK compilers link against the 64-bit version of MSVCRT.dll > instead of MSVCR80.DLL. They are almost like a 64-bit version of VC6. > There are 2 implications for Perl: > > 1) There is no _set_invalid_parameter_handler() mechanism. > 2) There are no MSVCR80.DLL related manifests to add. > > I found a different #defined symbol that I could check for in win32.c > to see if the _set_invalid_parameter_handler() typedef is present in > stdlib.h. > > Unfortunately I can't think of anything simple to disable embedding > of manifests in MakeMaker. The attached patch disables the manifest > stuff for 64-bit Perl versions. This re-enables building with the > Platform SDK, but will probably break VS2005 64-bit. Note that only > the Professional edition and higher of VS2005 include the 64-bit > compiler; the Platform SDK compiler is the only free one, AFAIK. > > Ideally Config.pm should record if Perl itself was built using > VS2005. I'm not sure if _anyone_ is building Win64 builds using > VS2005, so I think supporting just the Platform SDK is fine for now. > > Cheers, > -Jan > Thanks! I applied this as change #30878. Steve Peters steve@fisharerojo.orgThread Previous