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On Thu, 01 Sep 2011, Steve Hay wrote: > H.Merijn Brand wrote on 2011-09-01: > There are numerous __GNUC__ tests throughout the VC++ files to support > building XS extensions with GCC in a perl (e.g. ActivePerl) that was > built with VC++, and likewise numerous _MSC_VER tests throughout the GCC > files. I don't really have a plan for handling them at the moment, other > than manually restoring them each time they've been regenerated by > win32/config_h.PL... > > (Are there any precedents outside of Win32 for anything similar?) I don't think so. The Perl source distribution generally supports only building from source, on the target platform, and with the same compiler that will be used to build additional XS extensions. It is binary Perl distributions, like ActivePerl, or Apple's Perl, that support multiple configurations, selected at runtime, from a single installation of Perl. Most of the runtime adaption does happen at the Config.h level though, and not in the C level headers. I was planning to write a longer reply to this issue in the "is MULTIARCH useless" thread, which is actually strongly related to this issue. I just haven't found the time yet. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next