David Mertens

Hmm, know of any handy incantation for detecting if the appropriate header files are installed? Is Devel::CheckLib reliable enough here? Or, perhaps trying to run the executable screen without any...

Fantastic! I've never used `pthreads` (I've only done CUDA parallel programming) so I wasn't sure about the incantation. Furthermore, it's not hard to find Windows examples, such as this one:...

Note, mostly to self: see also https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686908(v=vs.85).aspx

Thanks! I copied portions of code from ExtUtils::HasCompiler, but I believe that the bug mentioned in that ticket does not apply to what I copied. I will keep this ticket...

@zmughal, this is on the list in my head, and now it's officially on my list in this queue. FWIW, compiler setup API is going to be my main focus...

Paging all those who are interested -- I am about to begin work on this kinda stuff. Now is the time to let me know if you have any ideas,...

Reopening until I finish extracting the parser code.

When names.txt or share/perl.h.cache are not cleaned up, which happened far too frequently for my comfort, I would get terribly obscure link errors. This is in part why I had...

I haven't actually worked on it yet. The reason I wanted to do it was because it would give me the opportunity to document how the thing works. If you...

Perhaps it is useful to mention that on my machine, this prints a blank line: `perl -MConfig -E'say $Config{use64bitint}'`