readme.txt
1ActivePerl versions
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4- ActivePerl 5.6 is _not_ binary compatible to older versions of ActivePerl
5 with respect to extensions. For this reason the same PDFlib DLL can _not_
6 be used with ActivePerl 5.6 and older versions. The "oldperl" directory
7 of the PDFlib binary distribution for Windows contains a PDFlib DLL for
8 ActivePerl versions before 5.6.
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11Compiling PDFlib for ActivePerl on Win32
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13(not relevant for users of the binary distribution)
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15The distribution is set up to be compiled with ActivePerl 5.6.
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17With some minor modification you can also compile with ActivePerl
18versions older than 5.6 (the MSVC project contains an "oldperl" configuration
19with all of this):
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21- Run the compiler in C++ mode (required by ActiveState). In MSVC++ 6 there
22 doesn't seem to be a GUI option for C++ mode, but the compiler switch
23 /Tp works.
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25- Change the Perl include and lib paths appropriately.
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27- Change perl56.lib to perlcore.lib.
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