Re: need help compiling sybperl on win32

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:59, Vanlandingham, Debbie (Contractor) wrote:
> Hi, 
> I'm having a problem installing sybperl on win32.
> 
> Here is my session output when I follow the installation directions...
> 
> Any ideas?  What am I missing here?
> I'm using perl from MKSToolkit....
> >>This is perl, v5.6.0 built for Intel
> >>Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
> >>Win32 port Copyright (c) 1996-2002 by MKS Inc.
> >>MKS version 8.1 build 1352
> 
> Thanks in advance , Debbie 
> 
> OUTPUT:
> C:\Program Files\sybperl>perl makefile.pl        (is this normal output??)
> Unknown Client Library version - assuming FreeTDS.

Yes - because the build process normally uses the Unix "strings" command
to extract the version of the OpenClient libraries from libct.a, and I
haven't ported this to the equivalent Windows calls (mostly because I
don't use Windows, personally)

As Joe Cummings says - I think you need to use Microsoft's nmake utility
instead of make.

An alternative that has worked for me is to install Cygwin and build
sybperl in that environment.

Michael
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