From a18a68bd95c0722bf1f6b41e3867c270ecfd4ef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Dubois Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:44:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Don't mention Activeware Perl versions All Win32::* modules on CPAN now build with standard toolchain commands; there is no need for "porting" or special build instructions anymore. --- README.win32 | 21 --------------------- 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 2b3cbbd..c3aea93 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -712,27 +712,6 @@ 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 Windows Specific Extensions - -A number of extensions specific to the Windows platform are available -from CPAN. You may find that many of these extensions are meant to -be used under the Activeware port of Perl, which used to be the only -native port for the Windows platform. Since the Activeware port does not -have adequate support for Perl's extension building tools, these -extensions typically do not support those tools either and, therefore, -cannot be built using the generic steps shown in the previous section. - -To ensure smooth transitioning of existing code that uses the -ActiveState port, there is a bundle of Win32 extensions that contains -all of the ActiveState extensions and several other Win32 extensions from -CPAN in source form, along with many added bugfixes, and with MakeMaker -support. The latest version of this bundle is available at: - - http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwin32/ - -See the README in that distribution for building and installation -instructions. - =item Notes on 64-bit Windows Windows .NET Server supports the LLP64 data model on the Intel Itanium -- 2.7.4