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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Steve Hay wrote: > > What are the options for building a 64-bit perl on Win32 using Microsoft > tools? > > The Makefile says that the SDK 64-bit compiler is supported. Does this > mean that the 64-bit compiler in VS2008 is also supported? If so, can it > be built on a 32-bit OS, or does it have to be built on a 64-bit OS? > > (I'm trying to use the VS2008 64-bit compiler (the x86_amd64 one), but > working on a 32-bit OS, and I'm not having any luck.) I don't actually know if the 64-bit compiler is still a 32-bit executable itself, but it wouldn't work anyways, as the Perl build process requires you to run the miniperl.exe that you have just built. So _maybe_ it would be possible to build miniperl.exe with the 32-bit compiler, and then build the full perl.exe and all extensions with the 64-bit one, but the bundled Makefiles are not set up for this. I also see little utility in this, as you wouldn't be able to run the test suite either. The other way around (building 32-bit perl.exe on 64-bit Windows) works just fine as long as you remember to explicitly set WIN64 to undef first. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next