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Steve Hay wrote on 2010-06-29: > So I've now moved on to trying to build perl (5.12.1) with the 64-bit > compiler (amd64) on a 64-bit machine, but it still isn't working for me. > > I opened up the standard VC++ x64 command prompt, set CCTYPE=MSVC90 in > the win32/Makefile (I'm using Visual Studio 2008 SP1), and typed nmake. > > It started by emitting a mountain of warnings about type conversions for > every file that it compiles. Is that normal? Then it produced this > strange error message immediately after linking perl.exe: > > ..\miniperl.exe -I..\lib bin\exetype.pl ..\wperl.exe WINDOWS > 'x' outside of string in unpack at bin\exetype.pl line 39. NMAKE : fatal > error U1077: '..\miniperl.exe' : return code '0xff' Stop. FWIW, I eventually got the build working by using $(PERLEXE) instead of $(MINIPERL) in that command-line, as suggested here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=834521 It may be worth applying the suggested patch(es), even though it ducks the real problem rather than fixing it.Thread Previous | Thread Next