Re: [Patch] MinGW support for Glib-Object-Introspection

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>
> To: gtk-perl-list gnome org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Patch] MinGW support for Glib-Object-Introspection
[snip]
> Do you have the possibility to test with nmake/cl?
>
> >  +      # XXX: G-O-I defaults to CC=cc
> >  +      $ENV{CC} = 'gcc' if (!defined $ENV{CC});
>
> On Unix, people usually symlink 'cc' to their preferred compiler, so 
> that using 'cc' in code is fine.  Does it not work like this on MSWin32?
> _______________________________________________


Whatever it's about, it should better be

$ENV{CC} = 'gcc' unless exists $ENV{CC};
.

I am talking about Perl idioms here.

Regards,
  Sergei.