Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] CVS/Nightly builds?

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Antony Baxter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to get hold of nightly builds of
> Win32::GUI from CVS?

Not currently, but it is on my (ever extending) list of things to think 
about.

> I don't have VC++6 and am having all sorts of problems
> building it with 
> VC++7 (and given the warnings in the README, wasn't
> that confident of it 
> working anyway!).

I'd be interested in hearing a bit more about your experience of trying 
to build with VC++7 - I've successfully built with the freely 
downloadable version (although you have to jump through some hoops), and 
haven't had any problems related to the different versions of msvcrt.dll 
(although I can't claim to have done any extensive testing).

> I would build it/use it with Cygwin, but I'm unable to
> compile Win32::GUI::DIBitmap for Cygwin.

Sorry, can't help there.

As Jez suggests, the build with mingw and Extutils::FakeConfig is 
relatively straightforward, once you've determined which mingw packages 
you need - just ensure you install mingw before Extutils::FakeConfig, 
and install Extutils::FakeConfig from source rather than from the 
activestate ppm, so that the install builds the perl link libraries that 
will be needed.

Let us know if you need any further help - and failing everything I hope 
to get around to a new release in the next couple of weeks.

Regards,
Rob.