On Fri, 06 Nov 2009, Sisyphus wrote:
>  Trying to build perl-5.11.1 using the free borland compiler
>  (Borland C++ 5.5.1)
> 
>  But very early on the 'dmake -f makefile.mk' process dies with:
> 
>  Turbo Incremental Link 5.00 Copyright (c) 1997, 2000 Borland Fatal:
>  Unable to open file 'ODBCCP32.LIB' dmake: Error code 130, while making
>  '..\generate_uudmap.exe'
> 
>  Indeed, the makefile.mk lists odbccp32.lib in LIBFILES, but that
>  library is not present with this compiler.

You can easily create the library yourself using implib.exe; do a
Google search for "borland odbccp32.dll" and you should find plenty
of examples.

I don't think it is needed for core Perl though; you should only
need that import library for Win32::ODBC, which isn't part of the
core.

The reason to list the complete set of import libs in the Makefile.mk
is that they will then automatically be included via MakeMaker for
any extension that you build later.

Cheers,
-Jan