-If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you\r
-see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is\r
-specially designed to be readable as is.\r
-\r
-=head1 NAME\r
-\r
-perlwin32 - Perl under Win32\r
-\r
-=head1 SYNOPSIS\r
-\r
-These are instructions for building Perl under Windows (9x, NT and\r
-2000).\r
-\r
-=head1 DESCRIPTION\r
-\r
-Before you start, you should glance through the README file\r
-found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution\r
-was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under\r
-which this software is being distributed.\r
-\r
-Also make sure you read L<BUGS AND CAVEATS> below for the\r
-known limitations of this port.\r
-\r
-The INSTALL file in the perl top-level has much information that is\r
-only relevant to people building Perl on Unix-like systems. In\r
-particular, you can safely ignore any information that talks about\r
-"Configure".\r
-\r
-You may also want to look at two other options for building\r
-a perl that will work on Windows NT: the README.cygwin and\r
-README.os2 files, each of which give a different set of rules to\r
-build a Perl that will work on Win32 platforms. Those two methods\r
-will probably enable you to build a more Unix-compatible perl, but\r
-you will also need to download and use various other build-time and\r
-run-time support software described in those files.\r
-\r
-This set of instructions is meant to describe a so-called "native"\r
-port of Perl to Win32 platforms. The resulting Perl requires no\r
-additional software to run (other than what came with your operating\r
-system). Currently, this port is capable of using one of the\r
-following compilers:\r
-\r
- Borland C++ version 5.02 or later\r
- Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2 or later\r
- Mingw32 with GCC version 2.95.2 or better\r
-\r
-The last of these is a high quality freeware compiler. Support\r
-for it is still experimental. (Older versions of GCC are known\r
-not to work.)\r
-\r
-This port currently supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that\r
-is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be\r
-able to build and install most extensions found in the CPAN sites.\r
-See L<Usage Hints for Perl on Win32> below for general hints about this.\r
-\r
-=head2 Setting Up Perl on Win32\r
-\r
-=over 4\r
-\r
-=item Make\r
-\r
-You need a "make" program to build the sources. If you are using\r
-Visual C++ under Windows NT or 2000, nmake will work. All other\r
-builds need dmake.\r
-\r
-dmake is a freely available make that has very nice macro features\r
-and parallelability.\r
-\r
-A port of dmake for Windows is available from:\r
-\r
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/dmake-4.1pl1-win32.zip\r
-\r
-(This is a fixed version of the original dmake sources obtained from\r
-http://www.wticorp.com/dmake/. As of version 4.1PL1, the original\r
-sources did not build as shipped and had various other problems.\r
-A patch is included in the above fixed version.)\r
-\r
-Fetch and install dmake somewhere on your path (follow the instructions\r
-in the README.NOW file).\r
-\r
-There exists a minor coexistence problem with dmake and Borland C++\r
-compilers. Namely, if a distribution has C files named with mixed\r
-case letters, they will be compiled into appropriate .obj-files named\r
-with all lowercase letters, and every time dmake is invoked\r
-to bring files up to date, it will try to recompile such files again.\r
-For example, Tk distribution has a lot of such files, resulting in\r
-needless recompiles everytime dmake is invoked. To avoid this, you\r
-may use the script "sync_ext.pl" after a successful build. It is\r
-available in the win32 subdirectory of the Perl source distribution.\r
-\r
-=item Command Shell\r
-\r
-Use the default "cmd" shell that comes with NT. Some versions of the\r
-popular 4DOS/NT shell have incompatibilities that may cause you trouble.\r
-If the build fails under that shell, try building again with the cmd\r
-shell.\r
-\r
-The nmake Makefile also has known incompatibilities with the\r
-"command.com" shell that comes with Windows 9x. You will need to\r
-use dmake and makefile.mk to build under Windows 9x.\r
-\r
-The surest way to build it is on Windows NT, using the cmd shell.\r
-\r
-Make sure the path to the build directory does not contain spaces. The\r
-build usually works in this circumstance, but some tests will fail.\r
-\r
-=item Borland C++\r
-\r
-If you are using the Borland compiler, you will need dmake.\r
-(The make that Borland supplies is seriously crippled and will not\r
-work for MakeMaker builds.)\r
-\r
-See L</"Make"> above.\r
-\r
-=item Microsoft Visual C++\r
-\r
-The nmake that comes with Visual C++ will suffice for building.\r
-You will need to run the VCVARS32.BAT file, usually found somewhere\r
-like C:\MSDEV4.2\BIN. This will set your build environment.\r
-\r
-You can also use dmake to build using Visual C++; provided, however,\r
-you set OSRELEASE to "microsft" (or whatever the directory name\r
-under which the Visual C dmake configuration lives) in your environment\r
-and edit win32/config.vc to change "make=nmake" into "make=dmake". The\r
-latter step is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default\r
-make for building extensions using MakeMaker.\r
-\r
-=item Mingw32 with GCC\r
-\r
-GCC-2.95.2 binaries can be downloaded from:\r
-\r
- ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/\r
-\r
-You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.\r
-\r
-The GCC-2.95.2 bundle comes with Mingw32 libraries and headers.\r
-\r
-Make sure you install the binaries that work with MSVCRT.DLL as indicated\r
-in the README for the GCC bundle. You may need to set up a few environment\r
-variables (usually ran from a batch file).\r
-\r
-There are a couple of problems with the version of gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.exe\r
-released 7 November 1999:\r
-\r
-=over\r
-\r
-=item *\r
-\r
-It left out a fix for certain command line quotes. To fix this, be sure\r
-to download and install the file fixes/quote-fix-msvcrt.exe from the above\r
-ftp location.\r
-\r
-=item *\r
-\r
-The definition of the fpos_t type in stdio.h may be wrong. If your\r
-stdio.h has this problem, you will see an exception when running the\r
-test t/lib/io_xs.t. To fix this, change the typedef for fpos_t from\r
-"long" to "long long" in the file i386-mingw32msvc/include/stdio.h,\r
-and rebuild.\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-A potentially simpler to install (but probably soon-to-be-outdated) bundle\r
-of the above package with the mentioned fixes already applied is available\r
-here:\r
-\r
- http://downloads.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip\r
- ftp://ftp.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-=head2 Building\r
-\r
-=over 4\r
-\r
-=item *\r
-\r
-Make sure you are in the "win32" subdirectory under the perl toplevel.\r
-This directory contains a "Makefile" that will work with\r
-versions of nmake that come with Visual C++, and a dmake "makefile.mk"\r
-that will work for all supported compilers. The defaults in the dmake\r
-makefile are setup to build using the GCC compiler.\r
-\r
-=item *\r
-\r
-Edit the makefile.mk (or Makefile, if you're using nmake) and change \r
-the values of INST_DRV and INST_TOP. You can also enable various\r
-build flags. These are explained in the makefiles.\r
-\r
-You will have to make sure that CCTYPE is set correctly and that \r
-CCHOME points to wherever you installed your compiler.\r
-\r
-The default value for CCHOME in the makefiles for Visual C++\r
-may not be correct for some versions. Make sure the default exists\r
-and is valid.\r
-\r
-If you have either the source or a library that contains des_fcrypt(),\r
-enable the appropriate option in the makefile. des_fcrypt() is not\r
-bundled with the distribution due to US Government restrictions\r
-on the export of cryptographic software. Nevertheless, this routine\r
-is part of the "libdes" library (written by Eric Young) which is widely\r
-available worldwide, usually along with SSLeay (for example, \r
-"ftp://fractal.mta.ca/pub/crypto/SSLeay/DES/"). Set CRYPT_SRC to the\r
-name of the file that implements des_fcrypt(). Alternatively, if\r
-you have built a library that contains des_fcrypt(), you can set\r
-CRYPT_LIB to point to the library name. The location above contains\r
-many versions of the "libdes" library, all with slightly different\r
-implementations of des_fcrypt(). Older versions have a single,\r
-self-contained file (fcrypt.c) that implements crypt(), so they may be\r
-easier to use. A patch against the fcrypt.c found in libdes-3.06 is\r
-in des_fcrypt.patch.\r
-\r
-Perl will also build without des_fcrypt(), but the crypt() builtin will\r
-fail at run time.\r
-\r
-Be sure to read the instructions near the top of the makefiles carefully.\r
-\r
-=item *\r
-\r
-Type "dmake" (or "nmake" if you are using that make).\r
-\r
-This should build everything. Specifically, it will create perl.exe,\r
-perl56.dll at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's\r
-under the lib\auto directory. If the build fails for any reason, make\r
-sure you have done the previous steps correctly.\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-=head2 Testing Perl on Win32\r
-\r
-Type "dmake test" (or "nmake test"). This will run most of the tests from\r
-the testsuite (many tests will be skipped).\r
-\r
-There should be no test failures when running under Windows NT 4.0 or\r
-Windows 2000. Many tests I<will> fail under Windows 9x due to the inferior\r
-command shell.\r
-\r
-Some test failures may occur if you use a command shell other than the\r
-native "cmd.exe", or if you are building from a path that contains\r
-spaces. So don't do that.\r
-\r
-If you are running the tests from a emacs shell window, you may see\r
-failures in op/stat.t. Run "dmake test-notty" in that case.\r
-\r
-If you're using the Borland compiler, you may see a failure in op/taint.t\r
-arising from the inability to find the Borland Runtime DLLs on the system\r
-default path. You will need to copy the DLLs reported by the messages\r
-from where Borland chose to install it, into the Windows system directory\r
-(usually somewhere like C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32) and rerun the test.\r
-\r
-If you're using Borland compiler versions 5.2 and below, you may run into\r
-problems finding the correct header files when building extensions. For\r
-example, building the "Tk" extension may fail because both perl and Tk\r
-contain a header file called "patchlevel.h". The latest Borland compiler\r
-(v5.5) is free of this misbehaviour, and it even supports an\r
-option -VI- for backward (bugward) compatibility for using the old Borland\r
-search algorithm to locate header files.\r
-\r
-Please report any other failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>.\r
-\r
-=head2 Installation of Perl on Win32\r
-\r
-Type "dmake install" (or "nmake install"). This will put the newly\r
-built perl and the libraries under whatever C<INST_TOP> points to in the\r
-Makefile. It will also install the pod documentation under\r
-C<$INST_TOP\$VERSION\lib\pod> and HTML versions of the same under\r
-C<$INST_TOP\$VERSION\lib\pod\html>. To use the Perl you just installed,\r
-you will need to add two components to your PATH environment variable,\r
-C<$INST_TOP\$VERSION\bin> and C<$INST_TOP\$VERSION\bin\$ARCHNAME>.\r
-For example:\r
-\r
- set PATH c:\perl\5.6.0\bin;c:\perl\5.6.0\bin\MSWin32-x86;%PATH%\r
-\r
-If you opt to comment out INST_VER and INST_ARCH in the makefiles, the\r
-installation structure is much simpler. In that case, it will be\r
-sufficient to add a single entry to the path, for instance:\r
-\r
- set PATH c:\perl\bin;%PATH%\r
-\r
-=head2 Usage Hints for Perl on Win32\r
-\r
-=over 4\r
-\r
-=item Environment Variables\r
-\r
-The installation paths that you set during the build get compiled\r
-into perl, so you don't have to do anything additional to start\r
-using that perl (except add its location to your PATH variable).\r
-\r
-If you put extensions in unusual places, you can set PERL5LIB\r
-to a list of paths separated by semicolons where you want perl\r
-to look for libraries. Look for descriptions of other environment\r
-variables you can set in L<perlrun>.\r
-\r
-You can also control the shell that perl uses to run system() and\r
-backtick commands via PERL5SHELL. See L<perlrun>.\r
-\r
-Perl does not depend on the registry, but it can look up certain default\r
-values if you choose to put them there. Perl attempts to read entries from\r
-C<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Perl> and C<HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Perl>.\r
-Entries in the former override entries in the latter. One or more of the\r
-following entries (of type REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ) may be set:\r
-\r
- lib-$] version-specific standard library path to add to @INC\r
- lib standard library path to add to @INC\r
- sitelib-$] version-specific site library path to add to @INC\r
- sitelib site library path to add to @INC\r
- vendorlib-$] version-specific vendor library path to add to @INC\r
- vendorlib vendor library path to add to @INC\r
- PERL* fallback for all %ENV lookups that begin with "PERL"\r
-\r
-Note the C<$]> in the above is not literal. Substitute whatever version\r
-of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.6.0>. Paths must be\r
-separated with semicolons, as usual on win32.\r
-\r
-=item File Globbing\r
-\r
-By default, perl handles file globbing using the File::Glob extension,\r
-which provides portable globbing.\r
-\r
-If you want perl to use globbing that emulates the quirks of DOS\r
-filename conventions, you might want to consider using File::DosGlob\r
-to override the internal glob() implementation. See L<File::DosGlob> for\r
-details.\r
-\r
-=item Using perl from the command line\r
-\r
-If you are accustomed to using perl from various command-line\r
-shells found in UNIX environments, you will be less than pleased\r
-with what Windows offers by way of a command shell.\r
-\r
-The crucial thing to understand about the Windows environment is that\r
-the command line you type in is processed twice before Perl sees it.\r
-First, your command shell (usually CMD.EXE on Windows NT, and\r
-COMMAND.COM on Windows 9x) preprocesses the command line, to handle\r
-redirection, environment variable expansion, and location of the\r
-executable to run. Then, the perl executable splits the remaining\r
-command line into individual arguments, using the C runtime library\r
-upon which Perl was built.\r
-\r
-It is particularly important to note that neither the shell nor the C\r
-runtime do any wildcard expansions of command-line arguments (so\r
-wildcards need not be quoted). Also, the quoting behaviours of the\r
-shell and the C runtime are rudimentary at best (and may, if you are\r
-using a non-standard shell, be inconsistent). The only (useful) quote\r
-character is the double quote ("). It can be used to protect spaces\r
-and other special characters in arguments.\r
-\r
-The Windows NT documentation has almost no description of how the\r
-quoting rules are implemented, but here are some general observations\r
-based on experiments: The C runtime breaks arguments at spaces and\r
-passes them to programs in argc/argv. Double quotes can be used to\r
-prevent arguments with spaces in them from being split up. You can\r
-put a double quote in an argument by escaping it with a backslash and\r
-enclosing the whole argument within double quotes. The backslash and\r
-the pair of double quotes surrounding the argument will be stripped by\r
-the C runtime.\r
-\r
-The file redirection characters "<", ">", and "|" can be quoted by\r
-double quotes (although there are suggestions that this may not always\r
-be true). Single quotes are not treated as quotes by the shell or\r
-the C runtime, they don't get stripped by the shell (just to make\r
-this type of quoting completely useless). The caret "^" has also\r
-been observed to behave as a quoting character, but this appears\r
-to be a shell feature, and the caret is not stripped from the command\r
-line, so Perl still sees it (and the C runtime phase does not treat\r
-the caret as a quote character).\r
-\r
-Here are some examples of usage of the "cmd" shell:\r
-\r
-This prints two doublequotes:\r
-\r
- perl -e "print '\"\"' "\r
-\r
-This does the same:\r
-\r
- perl -e "print \"\\\"\\\"\" "\r
-\r
-This prints "bar" and writes "foo" to the file "blurch":\r
-\r
- perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" > blurch\r
-\r
-This prints "foo" ("bar" disappears into nowhereland):\r
-\r
- perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> nul\r
-\r
-This prints "bar" and writes "foo" into the file "blurch":\r
-\r
- perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 1> blurch\r
-\r
-This pipes "foo" to the "less" pager and prints "bar" on the console:\r
-\r
- perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" | less\r
-\r
-This pipes "foo\nbar\n" to the less pager:\r
-\r
- perl -le "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2>&1 | less\r
-\r
-This pipes "foo" to the pager and writes "bar" in the file "blurch":\r
-\r
- perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> blurch | less\r
-\r
-\r
-Discovering the usefulness of the "command.com" shell on Windows 9x\r
-is left as an exercise to the reader :)\r
-\r
-One particularly pernicious problem with the 4NT command shell for\r
-Windows NT is that it (nearly) always treats a % character as indicating\r
-that environment variable expansion is needed. Under this shell, it is\r
-therefore important to always double any % characters which you want\r
-Perl to see (for example, for hash variables), even when they are\r
-quoted.\r
-\r
-=item Building Extensions\r
-\r
-The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) offers a wealth\r
-of extensions, some of which require a C compiler to build.\r
-Look in http://www.cpan.org/ for more information on CPAN.\r
-\r
-Note that not all of the extensions available from CPAN may work\r
-in the Win32 environment; you should check the information at\r
-http://testers.cpan.org/ before investing too much effort into\r
-porting modules that don't readily build.\r
-\r
-Most extensions (whether they require a C compiler or not) can\r
-be built, tested and installed with the standard mantra:\r
-\r
- perl Makefile.PL\r
- $MAKE\r
- $MAKE test\r
- $MAKE install\r
-\r
-where $MAKE is whatever 'make' program you have configured perl to\r
-use. Use "perl -V:make" to find out what this is. Some extensions\r
-may not provide a testsuite (so "$MAKE test" may not do anything or\r
-fail), but most serious ones do.\r
-\r
-It is important that you use a supported 'make' program, and\r
-ensure Config.pm knows about it. If you don't have nmake, you can\r
-either get dmake from the location mentioned earlier or get an\r
-old version of nmake reportedly available from:\r
-\r
- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe\r
-\r
-Another option is to use the make written in Perl, available from\r
-CPAN:\r
-\r
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/NI-S/Make-0.03.tar.gz\r
-\r
-You may also use dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.\r
-\r
-Note that MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different syntax\r
-depending on what 'make' it thinks you are using. Therefore, it is\r
-important that one of the following values appears in Config.pm:\r
-\r
- make='nmake' # MakeMaker emits nmake syntax\r
- make='dmake' # MakeMaker emits dmake syntax\r
- any other value # MakeMaker emits generic make syntax\r
- (e.g GNU make, or Perl make)\r
-\r
-If the value doesn't match the 'make' program you want to use,\r
-edit Config.pm to fix it.\r
-\r
-If a module implements XSUBs, you will need one of the supported\r
-C compilers. You must make sure you have set up the environment for\r
-the compiler for command-line compilation.\r
-\r
-If a module does not build for some reason, look carefully for\r
-why it failed, and report problems to the module author. If\r
-it looks like the extension building support is at fault, report\r
-that with full details of how the build failed using the perlbug\r
-utility.\r
-\r
-=item Command-line Wildcard Expansion\r
-\r
-The default command shells on DOS descendant operating systems (such\r
-as they are) usually do not expand wildcard arguments supplied to\r
-programs. They consider it the application's job to handle that.\r
-This is commonly achieved by linking the application (in our case,\r
-perl) with startup code that the C runtime libraries usually provide.\r
-However, doing that results in incompatible perl versions (since the\r
-behavior of the argv expansion code differs depending on the\r
-compiler, and it is even buggy on some compilers). Besides, it may\r
-be a source of frustration if you use such a perl binary with an\r
-alternate shell that *does* expand wildcards.\r
-\r
-Instead, the following solution works rather well. The nice things\r
-about it are 1) you can start using it right away; 2) it is more \r
-powerful, because it will do the right thing with a pattern like\r
-*/*/*.c; 3) you can decide whether you do/don't want to use it; and\r
-4) you can extend the method to add any customizations (or even \r
-entirely different kinds of wildcard expansion).\r
-\r
- C:\> copy con c:\perl\lib\Wild.pm\r
- # Wild.pm - emulate shell @ARGV expansion on shells that don't\r
- use File::DosGlob;\r
- @ARGV = map {\r
- my @g = File::DosGlob::glob($_) if /[*?]/;\r
- @g ? @g : $_;\r
- } @ARGV;\r
- 1;\r
- ^Z\r
- C:\> set PERL5OPT=-MWild\r
- C:\> perl -le "for (@ARGV) { print }" */*/perl*.c\r
- p4view/perl/perl.c\r
- p4view/perl/perlio.c\r
- p4view/perl/perly.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perllib.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perllib.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c\r
- perl5.005/win32/perllib.c\r
-\r
-Note there are two distinct steps there: 1) You'll have to create\r
-Wild.pm and put it in your perl lib directory. 2) You'll need to\r
-set the PERL5OPT environment variable. If you want argv expansion\r
-to be the default, just set PERL5OPT in your default startup\r
-environment.\r
-\r
-If you are using the Visual C compiler, you can get the C runtime's\r
-command line wildcard expansion built into perl binary. The resulting\r
-binary will always expand unquoted command lines, which may not be\r
-what you want if you use a shell that does that for you. The expansion\r
-done is also somewhat less powerful than the approach suggested above.\r
-\r
-=item Win32 Specific Extensions\r
-\r
-A number of extensions specific to the Win32 platform are available\r
-from CPAN. You may find that many of these extensions are meant to\r
-be used under the Activeware port of Perl, which used to be the only\r
-native port for the Win32 platform. Since the Activeware port does not\r
-have adequate support for Perl's extension building tools, these\r
-extensions typically do not support those tools either and, therefore,\r
-cannot be built using the generic steps shown in the previous section.\r
-\r
-To ensure smooth transitioning of existing code that uses the\r
-ActiveState port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions that contains\r
-all of the ActiveState extensions and most other Win32 extensions from\r
-CPAN in source form, along with many added bugfixes, and with MakeMaker\r
-support. This bundle is available at:\r
-\r
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/GSAR/libwin32-0.151.zip\r
-\r
-See the README in that distribution for building and installation\r
-instructions. Look for later versions that may be available at the\r
-same location.\r
-\r
-=item Running Perl Scripts\r
-\r
-Perl scripts on UNIX use the "#!" (a.k.a "shebang") line to\r
-indicate to the OS that it should execute the file using perl.\r
-Win32 has no comparable means to indicate arbitrary files are\r
-executables.\r
-\r
-Instead, all available methods to execute plain text files on\r
-Win32 rely on the file "extension". There are three methods\r
-to use this to execute perl scripts:\r
-\r
-=over 8\r
-\r
-=item 1\r
-\r
-There is a facility called "file extension associations" that will\r
-work in Windows NT 4.0. This can be manipulated via the two\r
-commands "assoc" and "ftype" that come standard with Windows NT\r
-4.0. Type "ftype /?" for a complete example of how to set this\r
-up for perl scripts (Say what? You thought Windows NT wasn't\r
-perl-ready? :).\r
-\r
-=item 2\r
-\r
-Since file associations don't work everywhere, and there are\r
-reportedly bugs with file associations where it does work, the\r
-old method of wrapping the perl script to make it look like a\r
-regular batch file to the OS, may be used. The install process\r
-makes available the "pl2bat.bat" script which can be used to wrap\r
-perl scripts into batch files. For example:\r
-\r
- pl2bat foo.pl\r
-\r
-will create the file "FOO.BAT". Note "pl2bat" strips any\r
-.pl suffix and adds a .bat suffix to the generated file.\r
-\r
-If you use the 4DOS/NT or similar command shell, note that\r
-"pl2bat" uses the "%*" variable in the generated batch file to\r
-refer to all the command line arguments, so you may need to make\r
-sure that construct works in batch files. As of this writing,\r
-4DOS/NT users will need a "ParameterChar = *" statement in their\r
-4NT.INI file or will need to execute "setdos /p*" in the 4DOS/NT\r
-startup file to enable this to work.\r
-\r
-=item 3\r
-\r
-Using "pl2bat" has a few problems: the file name gets changed,\r
-so scripts that rely on C<$0> to find what they must do may not\r
-run properly; running "pl2bat" replicates the contents of the\r
-original script, and so this process can be maintenance intensive\r
-if the originals get updated often. A different approach that\r
-avoids both problems is possible.\r
-\r
-A script called "runperl.bat" is available that can be copied\r
-to any filename (along with the .bat suffix). For example,\r
-if you call it "foo.bat", it will run the file "foo" when it is\r
-executed. Since you can run batch files on Win32 platforms simply\r
-by typing the name (without the extension), this effectively\r
-runs the file "foo", when you type either "foo" or "foo.bat".\r
-With this method, "foo.bat" can even be in a different location\r
-than the file "foo", as long as "foo" is available somewhere on\r
-the PATH. If your scripts are on a filesystem that allows symbolic\r
-links, you can even avoid copying "runperl.bat".\r
-\r
-Here's a diversion: copy "runperl.bat" to "runperl", and type\r
-"runperl". Explain the observed behavior, or lack thereof. :)\r
-Hint: .gnidnats llits er'uoy fi ,"lrepnur" eteled :tniH\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-=item Miscellaneous Things\r
-\r
-A full set of HTML documentation is installed, so you should be\r
-able to use it if you have a web browser installed on your\r
-system.\r
-\r
-C<perldoc> is also a useful tool for browsing information contained\r
-in the documentation, especially in conjunction with a pager\r
-like C<less> (recent versions of which have Win32 support). You may\r
-have to set the PAGER environment variable to use a specific pager.\r
-"perldoc -f foo" will print information about the perl operator\r
-"foo".\r
-\r
-If you find bugs in perl, you can run C<perlbug> to create a\r
-bug report (you may have to send it manually if C<perlbug> cannot\r
-find a mailer on your system).\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-=head1 BUGS AND CAVEATS\r
-\r
-Norton AntiVirus interferes with the build process, particularly if \r
-set to "AutoProtect, All Files, when Opened". Unlike large applications \r
-the perl build process opens and modifies a lot of files. Having the \r
-the AntiVirus scan each and every one slows build the process significantly.\r
-Worse, with PERLIO=stdio the build process fails with peculiar messages\r
-as the virus checker interacts badly with miniperl.exe writing configure \r
-files (it seems to either catch file part written and treat it as suspicious,\r
-or virus checker may have it "locked" in a way which inhibits miniperl\r
-updating it). The build does complete with \r
-\r
- set PERLIO=perlio\r
-\r
-but that may be just luck. Other AntiVirus software may have similar issues.\r
-\r
-Some of the built-in functions do not act exactly as documented in\r
-L<perlfunc>, and a few are not implemented at all. To avoid\r
-surprises, particularly if you have had prior exposure to Perl\r
-in other operating environments or if you intend to write code\r
-that will be portable to other environments. See L<perlport>\r
-for a reasonably definitive list of these differences.\r
-\r
-Not all extensions available from CPAN may build or work properly\r
-in the Win32 environment. See L</"Building Extensions">.\r
-\r
-Most C<socket()> related calls are supported, but they may not\r
-behave as on Unix platforms. See L<perlport> for the full list.\r
-\r
-Signal handling may not behave as on Unix platforms (where it\r
-doesn't exactly "behave", either :). For instance, calling C<die()>\r
-or C<exit()> from signal handlers will cause an exception, since most\r
-implementations of C<signal()> on Win32 are severely crippled.\r
-Thus, signals may work only for simple things like setting a flag\r
-variable in the handler. Using signals under this port should\r
-currently be considered unsupported.\r
-\r
-Please send detailed descriptions of any problems and solutions that \r
-you may find to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>, along with the output produced\r
-by C<perl -V>.\r
-\r
-=head1 AUTHORS\r
-\r
-=over 4\r
-\r
-=item Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>\r
-\r
-=item Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>\r
-\r
-=item Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>\r
-\r
-=back\r
-\r
-This document is maintained by Gurusamy Sarathy.\r
-\r
-=head1 SEE ALSO\r
-\r
-L<perl>\r
-\r
-=head1 HISTORY\r
-\r
-This port was originally contributed by Gary Ng around 5.003_24,\r
-and borrowed from the Hip Communications port that was available\r
-at the time. Various people have made numerous and sundry hacks\r
-since then.\r
-\r
-Borland support was added in 5.004_01 (Gurusamy Sarathy).\r
-\r
-GCC/mingw32 support was added in 5.005 (Nick Ing-Simmons).\r
-\r
-Support for PERL_OBJECT was added in 5.005 (ActiveState Tool Corp).\r
-\r
-Support for fork() emulation was added in 5.6 (ActiveState Tool Corp).\r
-\r
-Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).\r
-\r
-Last updated: 1 April 2001\r
-\r
-=cut\r
+If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
+see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
+specially designed to be readable as is.
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+perlwin32 - Perl under Windows
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+These are instructions for building Perl under Windows 2000 and later.
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+Before you start, you should glance through the README file
+found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution
+was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under
+which this software is being distributed.
+
+Also make sure you read L<BUGS AND CAVEATS> below for the
+known limitations of this port.
+
+The INSTALL file in the perl top-level has much information that is
+only relevant to people building Perl on Unix-like systems. In
+particular, you can safely ignore any information that talks about
+"Configure".
+
+You may also want to look at one other option for building a perl that
+will work on Windows: the README.cygwin file, which give a different
+set of rules to build a perl for Windows. This method will probably
+enable you to build a more Unix-compatible perl, but you will also
+need to download and use various other build-time and run-time support
+software described in that file.
+
+This set of instructions is meant to describe a so-called "native"
+port of Perl to the Windows platform. This includes both 32-bit and
+64-bit Windows operating systems. The resulting Perl requires no
+additional software to run (other than what came with your operating
+system). Currently, this port is capable of using one of the
+following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture:
+
+ Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 or later
+ Gcc by mingw.org gcc version 3.2 or later
+ Gcc by mingw-w64.sf.net gcc version 4.4.3 or later
+
+Note that the last two of these are actually competing projects both
+delivering complete gcc toolchain for MS Windows:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item L<http://mingw.org>
+
+Delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows platform.
+
+=item L<http://mingw-w64.sf.net>
+
+Delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows
+platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64" they are not only 64-bit
+oriented). They deliver the native gcc compilers and cross-compilers
+that are also supported by perl's makefile.
+
+=back
+
+The Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given away free. They are
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010 Express
+Edition" (and also as part of the ".NET Framework SDK") and are the same
+compilers that ship with "Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional" or "Visual C++
+2005/2008/2010 Professional" respectively.
+
+This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
+
+ Microsoft Platform SDK Nov 2001 (64-bit compiler and tools)
+ MinGW64 compiler (gcc version 4.4.3 or later)
+
+The Windows SDK can be downloaded from L<http://www.microsoft.com/>.
+The MinGW64 compiler is available at L<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64>.
+The latter is actually a cross-compiler targeting Win64. There's also a trimmed
+down compiler (no java, or gfortran) suitable for building perl available at:
+L<http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/>
+
+NOTE: If you're using a 32-bit compiler to build perl on a 64-bit Windows
+operating system, then you should set the WIN64 environment variable to "undef".
+Also, the trimmed down compiler only passes tests when USE_ITHREADS *= define
+(as opposed to undef) and when the CFG *= Debug line is commented out.
+
+This port fully supports MakeMaker (the set of modules that
+is used to build extensions to perl). Therefore, you should be
+able to build and install most extensions found in the CPAN sites.
+See L<Usage Hints for Perl on Windows> below for general hints about this.
+
+=head2 Setting Up Perl on Windows
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Make
+
+You need a "make" program to build the sources. If you are using
+Visual C++ or the Windows SDK tools, nmake will work. Builds using
+the gcc need dmake.
+
+dmake is a freely available make that has very nice macro features
+and parallelability.
+
+A port of dmake for Windows is available from:
+
+L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/>
+
+Fetch and install dmake somewhere on your path.
+
+=item Command Shell
+
+Use the default "cmd" shell that comes with Windows. Some versions of the
+popular 4DOS/NT shell have incompatibilities that may cause you trouble.
+If the build fails under that shell, try building again with the cmd
+shell.
+
+Make sure the path to the build directory does not contain spaces. The
+build usually works in this circumstance, but some tests will fail.
+
+=item Microsoft Visual C++
+
+The nmake that comes with Visual C++ will suffice for building.
+You will need to run the VCVARS32.BAT file, usually found somewhere
+like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin.
+This will set your build environment.
+
+You can also use dmake to build using Visual C++; provided, however,
+you set OSRELEASE to "microsft" (or whatever the directory name
+under which the Visual C dmake configuration lives) in your environment
+and edit win32/config.vc to change "make=nmake" into "make=dmake". The
+latter step is only essential if you want to use dmake as your default
+make for building extensions using MakeMaker.
+
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010 Express Edition
+
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008/2010 Professional contain the same
+compilers and linkers that ship with the full versions, and also contain
+everything necessary to build Perl, rather than requiring a separate download
+of the Windows SDK like previous versions did.
+
+These packages can be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
+links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
+changing so often.)
+
+Install Visual C++ 2008/2010 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
+
+ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
+
+(assuming the default installation location was chosen).
+
+Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that
+file to set CCTYPE to MSVC90FREE or MSVC100FREE first.
+
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
+
+This free version of Visual C++ 2005 Professional contains the same compiler
+and linker that ship with the full version, but doesn't contain everything
+necessary to build Perl.
+
+You will also need to download the "Windows SDK" (the "Core SDK" and "MDAC
+SDK" components are required) for more header files and libraries.
+
+These packages can both be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
+links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
+changing so often.)
+
+Try to obtain the latest version of the Windows SDK. Sometimes these packages
+contain a particular Windows OS version in their name, but actually work on
+other OS versions too. For example, the "Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK"
+also runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000.
+
+Install Visual C++ 2005 first, then the Platform SDK. Setup your environment
+as follows (assuming default installation locations were chosen):
+
+ SET PlatformSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK
+
+ SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages;%PlatformSDKDir%\Bin
+
+ SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\INCLUDE;%PlatformSDKDir%\include
+
+ SET LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\lib;%PlatformSDKDir%\lib
+
+ SET LIBPATH=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
+
+(The PlatformSDKDir might need to be set differently depending on which version
+you are using. Earlier versions installed into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK",
+while the latest versions install into version-specific locations such as
+"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2".)
+
+Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that
+file to set
+
+ CCTYPE = MSVC80FREE
+
+and to set CCHOME, CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above.
+
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
+
+This free toolkit contains the same compiler and linker that ship with
+Visual C++ .NET 2003 Professional, but doesn't contain everything
+necessary to build Perl.
+
+You will also need to download the "Platform SDK" (the "Core SDK" and "MDAC
+SDK" components are required) for header files, libraries and rc.exe, and
+".NET Framework SDK" for more libraries and nmake.exe. Note that the latter
+(which also includes the free compiler and linker) requires the ".NET
+Framework Redistributable" to be installed first. This can be downloaded and
+installed separately, but is included in the "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" anyway.
+
+These packages can all be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
+links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
+changing so often.)
+
+Try to obtain the latest version of the Windows SDK. Sometimes these packages
+contain a particular Windows OS version in their name, but actually work on
+other OS versions too. For example, the "Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK"
+also runs on Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000.
+
+Install the Toolkit first, then the Platform SDK, then the .NET Framework SDK.
+Setup your environment as follows (assuming default installation locations
+were chosen):
+
+ SET PlatformSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK
+
+ SET PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin;%PlatformSDKDir%\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin
+
+ SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\include;%PlatformSDKDir%\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include
+
+ SET LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\lib;%PlatformSDKDir%\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\lib
+
+(The PlatformSDKDir might need to be set differently depending on which version
+you are using. Earlier versions installed into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK",
+while the latest versions install into version-specific locations such as
+"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2".)
+
+Several required files will still be missing:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+cvtres.exe is required by link.exe when using a .res file. It is actually
+installed by the .NET Framework SDK, but into a location such as the
+following:
+
+ C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322
+
+Copy it from there to %PlatformSDKDir%\Bin
+
+=item *
+
+lib.exe is normally used to build libraries, but link.exe with the /lib
+option also works, so change win32/config.vc to use it instead:
+
+Change the line reading:
+
+ ar='lib'
+
+to:
+
+ ar='link /lib'
+
+It may also be useful to create a batch file called lib.bat in
+C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin containing:
+
+ @echo off
+ link /lib %*
+
+for the benefit of any naughty C extension modules that you might want to build
+later which explicitly reference "lib" rather than taking their value from
+$Config{ar}.
+
+=item *
+
+setargv.obj is required to build perlglob.exe (and perl.exe if the USE_SETARGV
+option is enabled). The Platform SDK supplies this object file in source form
+in %PlatformSDKDir%\src\crt. Copy setargv.c, cruntime.h and
+internal.h from there to some temporary location and build setargv.obj using
+
+ cl.exe /c /I. /D_CRTBLD setargv.c
+
+Then copy setargv.obj to %PlatformSDKDir%\lib
+
+Alternatively, if you don't need perlglob.exe and don't need to enable the
+USE_SETARGV option then you can safely just remove all mention of $(GLOBEXE)
+from win32/Makefile and setargv.obj won't be required anyway.
+
+=back
+
+Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that
+file to set
+
+ CCTYPE = MSVC70FREE
+
+and to set CCHOME, CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above.
+
+=item Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler
+
+The nmake that comes with the Platform SDK will suffice for building
+Perl. Make sure you are building within one of the "Build Environment"
+shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu.
+
+=item MinGW release 3 with gcc
+
+Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x
+and later). It can be downloaded here:
+
+L<http://www.mingw.org/>
+
+You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Building
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Make sure you are in the "win32" subdirectory under the perl toplevel.
+This directory contains a "Makefile" that will work with
+versions of nmake that come with Visual C++ or the Windows SDK, and
+a dmake "makefile.mk" that will work for all supported compilers. The
+defaults in the dmake makefile are setup to build using MinGW/gcc.
+
+=item *
+
+Edit the makefile.mk (or Makefile, if you're using nmake) and change
+the values of INST_DRV and INST_TOP. You can also enable various
+build flags. These are explained in the makefiles.
+
+Note that it is generally not a good idea to try to build a perl with
+INST_DRV and INST_TOP set to a path that already exists from a previous
+build. In particular, this may cause problems with the
+lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t test, which attempts to build a test program and
+may end up building against the installed perl's lib/CORE directory rather
+than the one being tested.
+
+You will have to make sure that CCTYPE is set correctly and that
+CCHOME points to wherever you installed your compiler.
+
+If building with the cross-compiler provided by
+mingw-w64.sourceforge.net you'll need to uncomment the line that sets
+GCCCROSS in the makefile.mk. Do this only if it's the cross-compiler - ie
+only if the bin folder doesn't contain a gcc.exe. (The cross-compiler
+does not provide a gcc.exe, g++.exe, ar.exe, etc. Instead, all of these
+executables are prefixed with 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-'.)
+
+The default value for CCHOME in the makefiles for Visual C++
+may not be correct for some versions. Make sure the default exists
+and is valid.
+
+You may also need to comment out the C<DELAYLOAD = ...> line in the
+Makefile if you're using VC++ 6.0 without the latest service pack and
+the linker reports an internal error.
+
+If you want build some core extensions statically into perl's dll, specify
+them in the STATIC_EXT macro.
+
+Be sure to read the instructions near the top of the makefiles carefully.
+
+=item *
+
+Type "dmake" (or "nmake" if you are using that make).
+
+This should build everything. Specifically, it will create perl.exe,
+perl517.dll at the perl toplevel, and various other extension dll's
+under the lib\auto directory. If the build fails for any reason, make
+sure you have done the previous steps correctly.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Testing Perl on Windows
+
+Type "dmake test" (or "nmake test"). This will run most of the tests from
+the testsuite (many tests will be skipped).
+
+There should be no test failures.
+
+Some test failures may occur if you use a command shell other than the
+native "cmd.exe", or if you are building from a path that contains
+spaces. So don't do that.
+
+If you are running the tests from a emacs shell window, you may see
+failures in op/stat.t. Run "dmake test-notty" in that case.
+
+If you run the tests on a FAT partition, you may see some failures for
+C<link()> related tests (I<op/write.t>, I<op/stat.t> ...). Testing on
+NTFS avoids these errors.
+
+Furthermore, you should make sure that during C<make test> you do not
+have any GNU tool packages in your path: some toolkits like Unixutils
+include some tools (C<type> for instance) which override the Windows
+ones and makes tests fail. Remove them from your path while testing to
+avoid these errors.
+
+Please report any other failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>.
+
+=head2 Installation of Perl on Windows
+
+Type "dmake install" (or "nmake install"). This will put the newly
+built perl and the libraries under whatever C<INST_TOP> points to in the
+Makefile. It will also install the pod documentation under
+C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\lib\pod> and HTML versions of the same under
+C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\lib\pod\html>.
+
+To use the Perl you just installed you will need to add a new entry to
+your PATH environment variable: C<$INST_TOP\bin>, e.g.
+
+ set PATH=c:\perl\bin;%PATH%
+
+If you opted to uncomment C<INST_VER> and C<INST_ARCH> in the makefile
+then the installation structure is a little more complicated and you will
+need to add two new PATH components instead: C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\bin> and
+C<$INST_TOP\$INST_VER\bin\$ARCHNAME>, e.g.
+
+ set PATH=c:\perl\5.6.0\bin;c:\perl\5.6.0\bin\MSWin32-x86;%PATH%
+
+=head2 Usage Hints for Perl on Windows
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Environment Variables
+
+The installation paths that you set during the build get compiled
+into perl, so you don't have to do anything additional to start
+using that perl (except add its location to your PATH variable).
+
+If you put extensions in unusual places, you can set PERL5LIB
+to a list of paths separated by semicolons where you want perl
+to look for libraries. Look for descriptions of other environment
+variables you can set in L<perlrun>.
+
+You can also control the shell that perl uses to run system() and
+backtick commands via PERL5SHELL. See L<perlrun>.
+
+Perl does not depend on the registry, but it can look up certain default
+values if you choose to put them there. Perl attempts to read entries from
+C<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Perl> and C<HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Perl>.
+Entries in the former override entries in the latter. One or more of the
+following entries (of type REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ) may be set:
+
+ lib-$] version-specific standard library path to add to @INC
+ lib standard library path to add to @INC
+ sitelib-$] version-specific site library path to add to @INC
+ sitelib site library path to add to @INC
+ vendorlib-$] version-specific vendor library path to add to @INC
+ vendorlib vendor library path to add to @INC
+ PERL* fallback for all %ENV lookups that begin with "PERL"
+
+Note the C<$]> in the above is not literal. Substitute whatever version
+of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.6.0>. Paths must be
+separated with semicolons, as usual on Windows.
+
+=item File Globbing
+
+By default, perl handles file globbing using the File::Glob extension,
+which provides portable globbing.
+
+If you want perl to use globbing that emulates the quirks of DOS
+filename conventions, you might want to consider using File::DosGlob
+to override the internal glob() implementation. See L<File::DosGlob> for
+details.
+
+=item Using perl from the command line
+
+If you are accustomed to using perl from various command-line
+shells found in UNIX environments, you will be less than pleased
+with what Windows offers by way of a command shell.
+
+The crucial thing to understand about the Windows environment is that
+the command line you type in is processed twice before Perl sees it.
+First, your command shell (usually CMD.EXE) preprocesses the command
+line, to handle redirection, environment variable expansion, and
+location of the executable to run. Then, the perl executable splits
+the remaining command line into individual arguments, using the
+C runtime library upon which Perl was built.
+
+It is particularly important to note that neither the shell nor the C
+runtime do any wildcard expansions of command-line arguments (so
+wildcards need not be quoted). Also, the quoting behaviours of the
+shell and the C runtime are rudimentary at best (and may, if you are
+using a non-standard shell, be inconsistent). The only (useful) quote
+character is the double quote ("). It can be used to protect spaces
+and other special characters in arguments.
+
+The Windows documentation describes the shell parsing rules here:
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true>
+and the C runtime parsing rules here:
+L<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17w5ykft%28v=VS.100%29.aspx>.
+
+Here are some further observations based on experiments: The C runtime
+breaks arguments at spaces and passes them to programs in argc/argv.
+Double quotes can be used to prevent arguments with spaces in them from
+being split up. You can put a double quote in an argument by escaping
+it with a backslash and enclosing the whole argument within double quotes.
+The backslash and the pair of double quotes surrounding the argument will
+be stripped by the C runtime.
+
+The file redirection characters "E<lt>", "E<gt>", and "|" can be quoted by
+double quotes (although there are suggestions that this may not always
+be true). Single quotes are not treated as quotes by the shell or
+the C runtime, they don't get stripped by the shell (just to make
+this type of quoting completely useless). The caret "^" has also
+been observed to behave as a quoting character, but this appears
+to be a shell feature, and the caret is not stripped from the command
+line, so Perl still sees it (and the C runtime phase does not treat
+the caret as a quote character).
+
+Here are some examples of usage of the "cmd" shell:
+
+This prints two doublequotes:
+
+ perl -e "print '\"\"' "
+
+This does the same:
+
+ perl -e "print \"\\\"\\\"\" "
+
+This prints "bar" and writes "foo" to the file "blurch":
+
+ perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" > blurch
+
+This prints "foo" ("bar" disappears into nowhereland):
+
+ perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> nul
+
+This prints "bar" and writes "foo" into the file "blurch":
+
+ perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 1> blurch
+
+This pipes "foo" to the "less" pager and prints "bar" on the console:
+
+ perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" | less
+
+This pipes "foo\nbar\n" to the less pager:
+
+ perl -le "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2>&1 | less
+
+This pipes "foo" to the pager and writes "bar" in the file "blurch":
+
+ perl -e "print 'foo'; print STDERR 'bar'" 2> blurch | less
+
+
+Discovering the usefulness of the "command.com" shell on Windows 9x
+is left as an exercise to the reader :)
+
+One particularly pernicious problem with the 4NT command shell for
+Windows is that it (nearly) always treats a % character as indicating
+that environment variable expansion is needed. Under this shell, it is
+therefore important to always double any % characters which you want
+Perl to see (for example, for hash variables), even when they are
+quoted.
+
+=item Building Extensions
+
+The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) offers a wealth
+of extensions, some of which require a C compiler to build.
+Look in L<http://www.cpan.org/> for more information on CPAN.
+
+Note that not all of the extensions available from CPAN may work
+in the Windows environment; you should check the information at
+L<http://testers.cpan.org/> before investing too much effort into
+porting modules that don't readily build.
+
+Most extensions (whether they require a C compiler or not) can
+be built, tested and installed with the standard mantra:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL
+ $MAKE
+ $MAKE test
+ $MAKE install
+
+where $MAKE is whatever 'make' program you have configured perl to
+use. Use "perl -V:make" to find out what this is. Some extensions
+may not provide a testsuite (so "$MAKE test" may not do anything or
+fail), but most serious ones do.
+
+It is important that you use a supported 'make' program, and
+ensure Config.pm knows about it. If you don't have nmake, you can
+either get dmake from the location mentioned earlier or get an
+old version of nmake reportedly available from:
+
+L<http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/nmake15.exe>
+
+Another option is to use the make written in Perl, available from
+CPAN.
+
+L<http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Make/>
+
+You may also use dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.
+
+Note that MakeMaker actually emits makefiles with different syntax
+depending on what 'make' it thinks you are using. Therefore, it is
+important that one of the following values appears in Config.pm:
+
+ make='nmake' # MakeMaker emits nmake syntax
+ make='dmake' # MakeMaker emits dmake syntax
+ any other value # MakeMaker emits generic make syntax
+ (e.g GNU make, or Perl make)
+
+If the value doesn't match the 'make' program you want to use,
+edit Config.pm to fix it.
+
+If a module implements XSUBs, you will need one of the supported
+C compilers. You must make sure you have set up the environment for
+the compiler for command-line compilation.
+
+If a module does not build for some reason, look carefully for
+why it failed, and report problems to the module author. If
+it looks like the extension building support is at fault, report
+that with full details of how the build failed using the perlbug
+utility.
+
+=item Command-line Wildcard Expansion
+
+The default command shells on DOS descendant operating systems (such
+as they are) usually do not expand wildcard arguments supplied to
+programs. They consider it the application's job to handle that.
+This is commonly achieved by linking the application (in our case,
+perl) with startup code that the C runtime libraries usually provide.
+However, doing that results in incompatible perl versions (since the
+behavior of the argv expansion code differs depending on the
+compiler, and it is even buggy on some compilers). Besides, it may
+be a source of frustration if you use such a perl binary with an
+alternate shell that *does* expand wildcards.
+
+Instead, the following solution works rather well. The nice things
+about it are 1) you can start using it right away; 2) it is more
+powerful, because it will do the right thing with a pattern like
+*/*/*.c; 3) you can decide whether you do/don't want to use it; and
+4) you can extend the method to add any customizations (or even
+entirely different kinds of wildcard expansion).
+
+ C:\> copy con c:\perl\lib\Wild.pm
+ # Wild.pm - emulate shell @ARGV expansion on shells that don't
+ use File::DosGlob;
+ @ARGV = map {
+ my @g = File::DosGlob::glob($_) if /[*?]/;
+ @g ? @g : $_;
+ } @ARGV;
+ 1;
+ ^Z
+ C:\> set PERL5OPT=-MWild
+ C:\> perl -le "for (@ARGV) { print }" */*/perl*.c
+ p4view/perl/perl.c
+ p4view/perl/perlio.c
+ p4view/perl/perly.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perllib.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perllib.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perlglob.c
+ perl5.005/win32/perllib.c
+
+Note there are two distinct steps there: 1) You'll have to create
+Wild.pm and put it in your perl lib directory. 2) You'll need to
+set the PERL5OPT environment variable. If you want argv expansion
+to be the default, just set PERL5OPT in your default startup
+environment.
+
+If you are using the Visual C compiler, you can get the C runtime's
+command line wildcard expansion built into perl binary. The resulting
+binary will always expand unquoted command lines, which may not be
+what you want if you use a shell that does that for you. The expansion
+done is also somewhat less powerful than the approach suggested above.
+
+=item Notes on 64-bit Windows
+
+Windows .NET Server supports the LLP64 data model on the Intel Itanium
+architecture.
+
+The LLP64 data model is different from the LP64 data model that is the
+norm on 64-bit Unix platforms. In the former, C<int> and C<long> are
+both 32-bit data types, while pointers are 64 bits wide. In addition,
+there is a separate 64-bit wide integral type, C<__int64>. In contrast,
+the LP64 data model that is pervasive on Unix platforms provides C<int>
+as the 32-bit type, while both the C<long> type and pointers are of
+64-bit precision. Note that both models provide for 64-bits of
+addressability.
+
+64-bit Windows running on Itanium is capable of running 32-bit x86
+binaries transparently. This means that you could use a 32-bit build
+of Perl on a 64-bit system. Given this, why would one want to build
+a 64-bit build of Perl? Here are some reasons why you would bother:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+A 64-bit native application will run much more efficiently on
+Itanium hardware.
+
+=item *
+
+There is no 2GB limit on process size.
+
+=item *
+
+Perl automatically provides large file support when built under
+64-bit Windows.
+
+=item *
+
+Embedding Perl inside a 64-bit application.
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Running Perl Scripts
+
+Perl scripts on UNIX use the "#!" (a.k.a "shebang") line to
+indicate to the OS that it should execute the file using perl.
+Windows has no comparable means to indicate arbitrary files are
+executables.
+
+Instead, all available methods to execute plain text files on
+Windows rely on the file "extension". There are three methods
+to use this to execute perl scripts:
+
+=over 8
+
+=item 1
+
+There is a facility called "file extension associations". This can be
+manipulated via the two commands "assoc" and "ftype" that come
+standard with Windows. Type "ftype /?" for a complete example of how
+to set this up for perl scripts (Say what? You thought Windows
+wasn't perl-ready? :).
+
+=item 2
+
+Since file associations don't work everywhere, and there are
+reportedly bugs with file associations where it does work, the
+old method of wrapping the perl script to make it look like a
+regular batch file to the OS, may be used. The install process
+makes available the "pl2bat.bat" script which can be used to wrap
+perl scripts into batch files. For example:
+
+ pl2bat foo.pl
+
+will create the file "FOO.BAT". Note "pl2bat" strips any
+.pl suffix and adds a .bat suffix to the generated file.
+
+If you use the 4DOS/NT or similar command shell, note that
+"pl2bat" uses the "%*" variable in the generated batch file to
+refer to all the command line arguments, so you may need to make
+sure that construct works in batch files. As of this writing,
+4DOS/NT users will need a "ParameterChar = *" statement in their
+4NT.INI file or will need to execute "setdos /p*" in the 4DOS/NT
+startup file to enable this to work.
+
+=item 3
+
+Using "pl2bat" has a few problems: the file name gets changed,
+so scripts that rely on C<$0> to find what they must do may not
+run properly; running "pl2bat" replicates the contents of the
+original script, and so this process can be maintenance intensive
+if the originals get updated often. A different approach that
+avoids both problems is possible.
+
+A script called "runperl.bat" is available that can be copied
+to any filename (along with the .bat suffix). For example,
+if you call it "foo.bat", it will run the file "foo" when it is
+executed. Since you can run batch files on Windows platforms simply
+by typing the name (without the extension), this effectively
+runs the file "foo", when you type either "foo" or "foo.bat".
+With this method, "foo.bat" can even be in a different location
+than the file "foo", as long as "foo" is available somewhere on
+the PATH. If your scripts are on a filesystem that allows symbolic
+links, you can even avoid copying "runperl.bat".
+
+Here's a diversion: copy "runperl.bat" to "runperl", and type
+"runperl". Explain the observed behavior, or lack thereof. :)
+Hint: .gnidnats llits er'uoy fi ,"lrepnur" eteled :tniH
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Miscellaneous Things
+
+A full set of HTML documentation is installed, so you should be
+able to use it if you have a web browser installed on your
+system.
+
+C<perldoc> is also a useful tool for browsing information contained
+in the documentation, especially in conjunction with a pager
+like C<less> (recent versions of which have Windows support). You may
+have to set the PAGER environment variable to use a specific pager.
+"perldoc -f foo" will print information about the perl operator
+"foo".
+
+One common mistake when using this port with a GUI library like C<Tk>
+is assuming that Perl's normal behavior of opening a command-line
+window will go away. This isn't the case. If you want to start a copy
+of C<perl> without opening a command-line window, use the C<wperl>
+executable built during the installation process. Usage is exactly
+the same as normal C<perl> on Windows, except that options like C<-h>
+don't work (since they need a command-line window to print to).
+
+If you find bugs in perl, you can run C<perlbug> to create a
+bug report (you may have to send it manually if C<perlbug> cannot
+find a mailer on your system).
+
+=head1 BUGS AND CAVEATS
+
+Norton AntiVirus interferes with the build process, particularly if
+set to "AutoProtect, All Files, when Opened". Unlike large applications
+the perl build process opens and modifies a lot of files. Having the
+the AntiVirus scan each and every one slows build the process significantly.
+Worse, with PERLIO=stdio the build process fails with peculiar messages
+as the virus checker interacts badly with miniperl.exe writing configure
+files (it seems to either catch file part written and treat it as suspicious,
+or virus checker may have it "locked" in a way which inhibits miniperl
+updating it). The build does complete with
+
+ set PERLIO=perlio
+
+but that may be just luck. Other AntiVirus software may have similar issues.
+
+Some of the built-in functions do not act exactly as documented in
+L<perlfunc>, and a few are not implemented at all. To avoid
+surprises, particularly if you have had prior exposure to Perl
+in other operating environments or if you intend to write code
+that will be portable to other environments, see L<perlport>
+for a reasonably definitive list of these differences.
+
+Not all extensions available from CPAN may build or work properly
+in the Windows environment. See L</"Building Extensions">.
+
+Most C<socket()> related calls are supported, but they may not
+behave as on Unix platforms. See L<perlport> for the full list.
+
+Signal handling may not behave as on Unix platforms (where it
+doesn't exactly "behave", either :). For instance, calling C<die()>
+or C<exit()> from signal handlers will cause an exception, since most
+implementations of C<signal()> on Windows are severely crippled.
+Thus, signals may work only for simple things like setting a flag
+variable in the handler. Using signals under this port should
+currently be considered unsupported.
+
+Please send detailed descriptions of any problems and solutions that
+you may find to E<lt>F<perlbug@perl.org>E<gt>, along with the output
+produced by C<perl -V>.
+
+=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+The use of a camel with the topic of Perl is a trademark
+of O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Used with permission.
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>
+
+=item Gurusamy Sarathy E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>
+
+=item Nick Ing-Simmons E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
+
+=item Jan Dubois E<lt>jand@activestate.comE<gt>
+
+=item Steve Hay E<lt>steve.m.hay@googlemail.comE<gt>
+
+=back
+
+This document is maintained by Jan Dubois.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<perl>
+
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+This port was originally contributed by Gary Ng around 5.003_24,
+and borrowed from the Hip Communications port that was available
+at the time. Various people have made numerous and sundry hacks
+since then.
+
+GCC/mingw32 support was added in 5.005 (Nick Ing-Simmons).
+
+Support for PERL_OBJECT was added in 5.005 (ActiveState Tool Corp).
+
+Support for fork() emulation was added in 5.6 (ActiveState Tool Corp).
+
+Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
+
+Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
+
+Last updated: 10 September 2011
+
+=cut
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