after steve hay's http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/a2b0867187c3f1dc1866fb63cfd59da300fb4dd5 which added dnake support for intel c. i report it builds (dmake all, not dmake test, didnt do a dmake test) succesfully. but a small cosmetic issue i didnt research yet -------------------------------- Running Makefile.PL in dist/threads C:\p519\src\win32\..\miniperl.exe -I../../lib Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=perl INSTA LLMAN1DIR=none INSTALLMAN3DIR=none PERL_CORE=1 Generating a dmake-style Makefile Writing Makefile for threads dmake: makefile: line 435: Warning: -- Macro `BOOTSTRAP' redefined after use Making all in dist/threads dmake -S all PERL_CORE=1 dmake: makefile: line 435: Warning: -- Macro `BOOTSTRAP' redefined after use cp lib/threads.pm ..\..\lib\threads.pm ..\..\miniperl.exe "-I..\..\lib" "-I..\..\lib" ..\..\lib\ExtUtils\xsubpp -typem ap ..\..\lib\ExtUtils\typemap threads.xs> threads.xsc && C:\p519\src\miniperl. exe "-I..\..\lib" "-I..\..\lib" -MExtUtils::Command -e mv -- threads.xsc threads .c icl -c -nologo -GF -W3 -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -GL -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO _STRICT -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -DPERL_TEXTMODE_S CRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -O1 -MD -Zi -DND EBUG -GL -DVERSION=\"1.91\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.91\" "-I..\..\lib\CORE --------------------------------- bootstrap macro redef warning inevery module makefile.Thread Next