CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
  • Overridden methods

#NAME

ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

#SYNOPSIS

use ExtUtils::MM_Win32; # Done internally by ExtUtils::MakeMaker if needed

#DESCRIPTION

See ExtUtils::MM_Unix for a documentation of the methods provided there. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

#Overridden methods

#dlsyms

#xs_dlsyms_ext

On Win32, is .def.

#replace_manpage_separator

Changes the path separator with .

#maybe_command

Since Windows has nothing as simple as an executable bit, we check the file extension.

The PATHEXT env variable will be used to get a list of extensions that might indicate a command, otherwise .com, .exe, .bat and .cmd will be used by default.

#init_DIRFILESEP

Using \ for Windows, except for "gmake" where it is /.

#init_tools

Override some of the slower, portable commands with Windows specific ones.

#init_others

Override the default link and compile tools.

LDLOADLIBS's default is changed to $Config{libs}.

Adjustments are made for Borland's quirks needing -L to come first.

#init_platform

Add MM_Win32_VERSION.

#platform_constants

#specify_shell

Set SHELL to $ENV{COMSPEC} only if make is type 'gmake'.

#constants

Add MAXLINELENGTH for dmake before all the constants are output.

#special_targets

Add .USESHELL target for dmake.

#static_lib_pure_cmd

Defines how to run the archive utility

#dynamic_lib

Methods are overridden here: not dynamic_lib itself, but the utility ones that do the OS-specific work.

#extra_clean_files

Clean out some extra dll.{base,exp} files which might be generated by gcc. Otherwise, take out all *.pdb files.

#init_linker

#perl_script

Checks for the perl program under several common perl extensions.

#quote_dep

#xs_obj_opt

Override to fixup -o flags for MSVC.

#pasthru

All we send is -nologo to nmake to prevent it from printing its damned banner.

#arch_check (override)

Normalize all arguments for consistency of comparison.

#oneliner

These are based on what command.com does on Win98. They may be wrong for other Windows shells, I don't know.

#cd

dmake can handle Unix style cd'ing but nmake (at least 1.5) cannot. It wants:

cd dir1\dir2
command
another_command
cd ..\..

#max_exec_len

nmake 1.50 limits command length to 2048 characters.

#os_flavor

Windows is Win32.

#cflags

Defines the PERLDLL symbol if we are configured for static building since all code destined for the perl5xx.dll must be compiled with the PERLDLL symbol defined.

#make_type

Returns a suitable string describing the type of makefile being written.

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