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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
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010/2012 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.
+2005/2008/2010/2012 Professional" respectively.
This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
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
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 Express Edition
-These free versions of Visual C++ 2008/2010 Professional contain the same
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 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.
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.
+Install Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
+ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
(assuming the default installation location was chosen).
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
+perl519.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.
Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
-Last updated: 10 September 2011
+Last updated: 02 January 2012
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