Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] PPM distro for 64-bit PERL v 5.14

[Jan D. <ja...@ac...>]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Alex Lee wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jeremy.
> You were right about the repository.
> I was able to to install the module with dmake - there were some error
> messages but seem to work! In particular the Grid & axwindow seem to
> need msvc instead.

Is there a reason not to make another release with the 64-bit fixes?
That way it would automatically be picked up by the ActiveState PPM
build machines.

> BTW: the nomenclature Win32::GUI in a 64 bit is kinda funny =)

Not really, Win32 is the API, that is shared between 32-bit and
64-bit Windows.  E.g. even in 64-bit Windows a 'long' is still just
32-bit to preserve API compatibility.

Cheers,
-Jan