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smpeters committed Apr 23, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -400,6 +400,20 @@ C<$Config{link}> and institute a fall-back plan if it weren't found."
Although I can see that as confusing, given that C<$Config{d_link}> is true
when (hard) links are available.

=head2 Configure Windows using PowerShell

Currently, Windows uses hard-coded config files based to build the
config.h for compiling Perl. Makefiles are also hard-coded and need to be
hand edited prior to building Perl. While this makes it easy to create a perl.exe
that works across multiple Windows versions, being able to accurately
configure a perl.exe for a specific Windows versions and VS C++ would be
a nice enhancement. With PowerShell available on Windows XP and up, this
may now be possible. Step 1 might be to investigate whether this is possible
and use this to clean up our current makefile situation. Step 2 would be to
see if there would be a way to use our existing metaconfig units to configure a
Windows Perl or whether we go in a separate direction and make it so. Of
course, we all know what step 3 is.

=head1 Tasks that need a little C knowledge

These tasks would need a little C knowledge, but don't need any specific
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