Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] [win32-gui] building GUI

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Robert May schrieb:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> So I installed MS VC++ 6.0, the MSDN of the same era, and the XP SP2 
>> Platform SDK and (comes with it I guess) MS Visual C++ Toolkit 2003.

>> uuid.lib(servprov_i.obj) : fatal error LNK1103: debugging information 
>> corrupt; recompile module.
> 
> Vague memories.  Some time ago Microsoft made a non backwards compatible 
> change to the debug info format, meaning that they don't work with VC6.

They changed their lib format, and lib /? would help.
There's a switch in lib.exe to accept old libs.

lib /LINK50COMPAT

The first google hit describes it quite well:
   http://www.cubic.org/player/doc/node69.htm