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Re^3: Can't run nmakeby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Jul 17, 2010 at 23:02 UTC ( [id://850121]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
When did MS start to give compilers away for free (aka Express editions ?) I don't have exact time-lines, nor can I think of any easy way of obtaining them, but I think that you're asking the wrong question. The question should be: "When was the horribly broken, automated download of nmake15 added to cpan.pm?" On the basis of my memory only, but I am very confident that I had been using one of the MS free compilers for building XS extensions for a year or two before I installed a new version of (AS) Perl that suddenly decided to pull and use nmake15 each time I tried to use the CPAN shell. Despite that I had a fully working setup on my system, and nmake.exe was availble via my path; just because it "couldn't find it" by looking in an arbitrary list o wrong places. My from-memory guess is that this happened around 5.8.6 or later. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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