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Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 22:17:30 +0100
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On 06/05/14 21:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Warren Young writes:
>> Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4.  Later, Cygwin dropped the
>> "gcc-4" wrapper package.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS)
>> form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating
>> a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.
> Yes, I've posted about this some time ago.  You absolutely need to name
> the symlink "gcc-4.exe".

This is not my experience. My link is called 'gcc-4' pointing to 'gcc'; 
there is no '.exe' extension in either source or destination. This gets 
XS modules compiling for me.

Dave.


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