ExtUtils::MM_Win32(3)

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
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.

init_others
    Override some of the Unix specific commands with portable ExtUtils::Command ones.

    Also provide defaults for LD and AR in case the %Config values aren't set.

    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
special_targets
    Add .USESHELL target for dmake.

static_lib
    Changes how to run the linker.

    The rest is duplicate code from MM_Unix. Should move the linker code to its own method.

dynamic_lib
    Complicated stuff for Win32 that I don't understand. :(

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.

xs_o
    This target is stubbed out. Not sure why.

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

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 dir
        command
        another_command
        cd ..

    NOTE This cd can only go one level down. So far this sufficient for what MakeMaker needs.

max_exec_len
    nmake 1.50 limits command length to 2048 characters.

os_flavor
    Windows is Win32.