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perl -P in 5.005

I'm trying to use the -P switch with Perl 5.005 on Win95 to get it to do a C preprocessor pass before compiling. The command 'perl -P test.pl' generates the following error:

Can't open perl script "test.pl": Bad file descriptor

I do have Visual C++ on the same machine. Do I need to specify the location of the C preprocessor somewhere? If so, how do I do this?

Thanks,
Brian

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moquin

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Sorry for the delay. I downloaded the relevant modules as you suggest, but it appears that they are designed to work only with gpp; I get a "Parse Exception" when I use MSVC++ as the preprocessor. Suggestions?

b

b2pi

Sorry, I never saw this.... that message is generally an indicator
that you've got conflicting versions of perl, or conflicting versions
of the compiler setup.

Did you download a binary distribution of perl? If so, you're
probably best off downloading the source code, and then compiling everything

moquin

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Source isn't available for ActiveState 5.005 for Win32.

Thanks anyway. I'll find another way around it.

b2pi

Hey, wait a minute. You said you were using perl 5.005, I didn't
think ActiveState was up that high yet (I'm not fond of the
ActiveState port, and generally advise against people using it unless
there's a good reason to, i.e. you really need perlscript).

You'll find a pre-compiled version of Filter at the activestate web
site.