Re: [Mingw-msys] Building Perl 5.8.7 from source

[Lucian A. <luc...@vi...>]

Evan K wrote:

>I'm attempting to build the latest stable source
>package of Perl (5.8.7), so i go into the /win32 dir
>under the perl source distribution, skim over
>makefile.mk to confirm everything looks right, then i
>try to 'make', and I get this error: "Makefile:233:
>*** missing separator.  Stop."
>  
>
<snip>

>I don't see a problem here, since i have mingw
>installed in c:\MinGW\, am I missing something obvious?
>  
>
Well, 'README.win32' says the following:

"If you are using Visual C++ or the Platform SDK tools under Windows 
NT/2000/XP, nmake will work.  All other builds need dmake."

It is unfortunate that you can't use make, but that's how it is on 
Windows :-(

Regards,
Lucian Arboraeus