From: Steve Hay Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:32:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perldelta for recent BUILD_STATIC/ALL_STATIC changes X-Git-Tag: upstream/5.20.0~3143 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a34da6c44564d9e868f96e9d8334878836f0e826;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git perldelta for recent BUILD_STATIC/ALL_STATIC changes --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 6018098..d98ad3d 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -397,6 +397,17 @@ platforms has been removed. We believe that Perl has long been unable to build on mixed endian architectures (such as PDP-11s), so we don't think that this change will affect any platforms which are able to build v5.18.0. +=item Windows + +The BUILD_STATIC and ALL_STATIC makefile options for linking some or (nearly) +all extensions statically (into perl519.dll, and into a separate +perl-static.exe too) were broken for MinGW builds. This has now been fixed. + +The ALL_STATIC option has also been improved to include the Win32 extension, +and also the Encode extension for VC++ builds. (However, Encode and +Compress/Raw/Bzip2 are currently still excluded from MinGW builds. This will +hopefully be rectified soon.) + =back =head1 Internal Changes