Perl 5xx Suggestion

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The reason Perl 5.10 and lower work is due to a compatibility issue with 32-bit, I haven't tracked down the compatability issue and quite frankly I don't see the perl devs fixing it anytime soon.

Perl 5.12 and later works in x64 though, regardless of VS version.
Since we (read: I) only support vs2010 with 64-bit, we only have that option for compilation, even though it's incorrect.

It's a bit misleading yes, especially considering vs2010 32-bit doesn't work with perl 5.12 and later. That flag is there to make people using older versions who are forced to use non-64bit compilation options not get confused and guide them to the proper perl version.

Why limit it by VS version?
Well, To be completely honest if you are running a 32-bit server at any point now and are forced to use a non 64 bit OS, you should consider upgrading it, for one, and two, it's just easier on the developers in the long run to just download 64-bit perl and avoid the issue. If anyone has any insight on fixing the issue I would appreciate it and I am sure others would too.

[cavedude]

What's the issue with VS 2010 and Perl 5.12 on 32bit? That's what I am running on my developing box and it works fine from what I've seen. Do you maybe mean Perl 5.14?

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Originally Posted by cavedude

What's the issue with VS 2010 and Perl 5.12 on 32bit? That's what I am running on my developing box and it works fine from what I've seen. Do you maybe mean Perl 5.14?

Possibly? I remember there were two released I tried that didn't work, I can't remember version numbers.

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I hope I didn't poke the hornet's nest too hard


I thought I had read something about VC10 Professional vs. Express. Maybe that was an early 'QueryServ' issue I ran across, but I can't remember off the top of my head...


Irreverent recently posted this:

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35274

If this can't be traced to a configuration issue, maybe the VC2010/Perl 5.12 minimum isn't quite ready for prime time. (I still haven't seen any issues with my build, but I run a solo server.)


As far as I've been able to find on the net, a compiled perl 5.10.0.1007 was no longer available from any (legal) source back in February. I found a 5.10.1.1008 back then, but that one is no longer available either. I have run across several source code sites, but I'm not sure if the source has been modified locally or not. (Isn't there a Perl source repository somewhere? I found one once, but can't now..and its address was not in the 'activestate' domain.)