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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++ 2005-2015 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++
-2005-2015 Professional" respectively.
+available as "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" or "Visual C++ 2005-2017 Express [or
+Community, from 2017] 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++ 2005-2017 Professional" respectively.
This port can also be built on IA64/AMD64 using:
With the newer compilers, you may also use the older batch files if you choose
so.
-=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2015 Express Edition
+=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2008-2017 Express/Community Edition
-These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2015 Professional contain the same
+These free versions of Visual C++ 2008-2017 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++ 2008-2015 Express, then setup your environment using, e.g.
+Install Visual C++ 2008-2017 Express/Community, then setup your environment
+using, e.g.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\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 one of MSVC90FREE-MSVC140FREE first.
+file to set CCTYPE to one of MSVC90-MSVC141 first.
=item Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Perl should now build using the win32/Makefile. You will need to edit that
file to set
- CCTYPE = MSVC80FREE
+ CCTYPE = MSVC80
and to set CCHOME, CCINCDIR and CCLIBDIR as per the environment setup above.
Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
-Last updated: 19 February 2017
+Last updated: 16 June 2017
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