[Chicago-talk] perl question

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How would you compile them from linux laptop onto a
windows pc?What would be a good tool for this?











--- Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> wrote:

> 
> > I am on  linux laptop and can i write out a perl
> > script on windows and run it from a differnt
> computer
> > like on linux?
> 
> It depends.
> 
> The perl code itself is write-once run anywhere.
> 
> If you use operating-system specific features they
> may not
> be portable between systems. For example, the values
> returned by 'stat' on windows may not have a lot to
> do
> with what you'd get on *NIX. *NIX and OS/X (which is
> basically BSD) are pretty much portable.
> 
> Filesystms are particularly pernicious in this
> respect
> (e.g., don't try to find "c:\usr" on linux).
> File::Spec
> goes a long way to standardizing these things.
> 
> -- 
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