| thorat | jmd: anyway, see if Inline::C is enough for your needs |
| rmah | that would lock you out of all windows, for example and could easily lock you out of Sun Solaris |
| thorat | rmah: what if I prebuilt on windows ? does it support that? |
| jmd | thorat: I'll check it out. Thanks. |
| rmah | thorat: to clarify, Inline::C requires a C compiler |
| thorat | rmah: from the inline faq: "How do I create a binary distribution using Inline?" http://search.cpan.org/~ingy/Inline-0.44/Inline-FAQ.pod#___top |
| shorten | thorat's url is at http://xrl.us/vdvo |
| thorat | that's what I mean; I realize that a C compiler is needed somewhere along the way |
| rmah | thorat: what if you're running a non-activestate perl and don't have ppm? then those instructions won't work |
| rhizo | you'd still build under cygwin oh wait, no one uses cygwin - they just think they do! |
| rmah | there is no C compiler in the default Solaris install |
| thorat | ok, that's why I said "see if Inline::C is enough for your needs" |
| rmah | and cygwin sucks ass |
| rhizo | cygwin doesn't even exist, i hear |
| rmah | it's process/fork emulation is crap and causes all sorts of weird, hard to debug problems |
| rhizo | it's kind of like ogg, ya know ? they think it's there, but it ain't |
| rmah | heh |
| thrig | and you can't use many of the Win32:: modules under cygwin Perl, if memory serves |
| rmah | I hear ogg is a myth promulgated by risa hating goblins |
| NOTevil | i saw elvis listening to ogg last week. |
| rmah | was he singing in elvish? |
| rhizo | cygwin might be a handy solution when you need things like openssl under win32, and it's a way out when a ppm dependency isn't available |
| NOTevil | i couldn't tell, it was all oggish. |
| rmah | ugh |
| rhizo | though, yeah, generally, activestate / ppm is a saner route under win32 |