From: Soren A <sor...@fa...> - 2002-10-31 20:05:48
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Nic...@ao... wrote in news:d3....@ao...: > Soren is right - I only want dmake to build perl (so I can use the > scripts that come with ImageMagick). I installed the ActiveState perl not > realising that it cannot be un-installed. It really messed up my OS and > I had to install Win98 all over again. Many folks would say that you are doing the right thing. ActivePerl can be a great package but it isn't easy to extend it -- to add any modules that ActiveState hasn't seen fit to provide. Particularly, it isn't fun to try to integrate ActivePerl with MinGW. Building your own Perl is the right way to go. That said... > Please don't flame me for asking 'dumb' questions. I am an artist, not a > programmer and all these types of make are very confusing. I haven't seen any dumb questions from you yet. > When using CSPAN-dmake-4.1pl1-win32, under msys, what I should set > OSENVIRONMENT to? MINGW, __MINGW__ or MSYS? Oh boy. Uhh, <head scratching>... > There are two folders in dmake/startup/win32; a borland folder and a > microsoft folder. I presume I use the file macros.mk in the microsoft > folder. Is this correct? Thank you all for your patience. It may be you who are going to be demonstrating the patience, waiting for good answers here on these dmake questions ;-). I haven't built Perl recently enough to remember all the things I did to get dmake to work. I have set up dmake and did it and then forgotten what i did so many times, that's why i am not sanguine about using dmake for anything. Basically there are a lot of dmake settings that you can safely ignore -- i remember that much. Maybe somebody else can help you... i recommend you not limit your inquiry to this List, but ask on a Perl List or newsgroup, too. Good Luck, Soren A |