Re: [win32gui] Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Any release soon?

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

Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 6/19/2005 11:29 AM, came the following characters 
> from the keyboard of Robert May:
>
>> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I was gone for a week or so.  I have MS VC++ 6.0 and know how 
>>> to build the package, but not the whole process for release.  Would 
>>> that still be helpful? (especially regarding the PAR issue?)  I only 
>>> have Perl 5.8 installed though, and have never played with having 
>>> multiple Perls installed... I'd be willing to try installing 5.6 if 
>>> someone can show the way to do multiple Perls.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what difference using the VC complier makes vs. 
>> the MinGW one.  I'm certainly happy about the binary compatibility 
>> issue, but size of the resulting binary may be the deciding factor.
>
> Me neither.  I offered, because I (1) have VC++ 6.0 and (2) someone 
> mentioned some possible incompatibility with PAR and MinGW-built GUI.  
> I have no idea if this is an issue or not, but, I use PAR and GUI 
> together, so want it to keep working.

I am having no troubles with my MinGW build and PAR.  I asked for 
confirmation of the PAR issue on another thread - it may be cygwin related.

>> I've got the current HEAD revision from CVS comming in at 979KB - 
>> perhaps you would be kind enough to do a build using VC and let us 
>> know the size of GUI.dll.
>
> OK, I did that....
>
> 06/19/2005  02:21p             860,240 GUI.dll
>                1 File(s)        860,240 bytes
>
> So it seems that VC++ is a little more compact for whatever reason.

Indeed.  I'm not sure what to make of that.

>> In the mean time I'll go to the pain of downloading the SDK and 
>> commandline tools from micosoft, and installing them on a WIn2k 
>> system so that I can do that build too.
>
> Hmm.  Is MS VC++ 6.0 available from MS as a download?  I didn't think 
> they started that until VC++ 7.0 ...

The .net command line tools (no IDE) are available for free download 
from microsoft at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

Thanks for your assistance.

Rob.