I am running CPAN, which wants to compile some C stuff. Here:

c:\>cpan install Date::Calc

	It calls nmake which alls cl.exe. I am using Microsoft's nmake obtained from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe and Digital mars' cl.exe.

	At one point I get this error:


        cl -c    -nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_ST
RICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEX
T -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1
 -DVERSION=\"6.4\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"6.4\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" BitVector.c
Error: unrecognized flag '-GF'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
  C:\bin\nmake.EXE  -- NOT OK



	Is there a way to have cl.exe support the -GF flag?

	Thanks,

marcio

Marcio wrote:
>     Is there a way to have cl.exe support the -GF flag?

What does the -GF flag do?

Walter Bright skrev:
> Marcio wrote:
>>     Is there a way to have cl.exe support the -GF flag?
> 
> What does the -GF flag do?

"enable read-only string pooling"

I think DMC can safely ignore the flag.

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Bertel Brander wrote:
>> What does the -GF flag do?
> 
> "enable read-only string pooling"
> 
> I think DMC can safely ignore the flag.
> 

	Great!

	Walter, any hope for a new cl.exe ? Thanks,

marcio

I get the same error...anyone know how to get cl.exe?