Re: Needing some help with Module::Build and the Intel compiler.

Leon,

  Thanks for the response.  I've tried setting various compatibility modes to no avail.  What I haven't tried is forcing VC 6 compatibility yet.  Maybe I'll give that a shot.

Thanks,

Steve Mayer
[email protected]

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On Sep 29, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Steve Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>  I'm attempting to perform a Perl build on Windows 2003 64-bit using the Intel compiler (version 10.1.032) and I'm seeing issues with those modules that are using Module::Build.  Basically when I attempt to build any of these Module::Build based modules, I'm seeing the following type of error:
>> 
>>        perl Build.PL
>>        compilet-qQxoU.
>>       (0): internal error: backend signals
>> 
>> Has anyone seen this type of issue or has more experience with using the Intel compiler (along with VS 2005) to build Perl with?
> 
> Module::Build is using ExtUtils::CBuilder to do compiling and linking.
> AFAIK that doesn't have explicit support for the Intel compiler on
> Windows (though I remember icc having a gcc compatibility mode, maybe
> it works through that). ExtUtils;:CBuilder is a bit of a mess on
> Windows anyway.
> 
> Leon