LPM: perl 5.6 released

[Rich Bowen]

Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
...
> I've yet to try this with anything non trivial. I expect that I'll play
> with that some once I've tried it on Windows.
...

Different errors on Windows:

test.pl syntax OK
Compiling C(test) for test.pl!
C:\usr\bin\Perl.exe -IC:/usr/lib -IC:/usr/site/lib -I.
C:\WINNT\Profiles\rbowen\
LOCALS~1\Temp/test.pl.tst
bowenocals~1temp/test.pl.vals
cl.exe -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT
-DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL
_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX 
-IC:\usr\lib/CORE -
o test test.pl.c  /link -nologo -nodefaultlib -release 
-libpath:"C:\usr\lib\COR
E"  -machine:x86 -libpath:C:\usr\lib/CORE C:\usr\lib\CORE\perl56.lib  
oldnames.
lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  comdlg32.lib
advapi32.lib sh
ell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib
mpr.lib winm
m.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
'cl.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
ERROR: In compiling code for test.pl.c !

Searching for cl.exe does not find it anywhere. I don't know if that's a
typo, or just a file missing from the distribution. It sure will be nice
if/when this works.

OK, I'll quit bugging you for today.

Rich
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