How to install gcc and/or mingw?

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Karasik,

Welcome to the ActiveState Platform! In answer to your question, there are two ways to think about this:

  1. In sunsetting ppm and introducing a cloud-based build farm, the intent is that the ActiveState Platform IS your build environment. Anything you need to build form source code should be buildable on the ActiveState Platform in a far more secure, repeatable and simpler/quicker/easier manner than building it yourself on your local system.
  2. That said, if you need to build something using specific settings/switches, the ActiveState Platform currently does not support user-specific compiler parameters.

If your use case is #1, I encourage you to give the Platform a try to build whichever packages your project requires. It will build them all from source code (including linked C libraries) automatically for you, and package them for your OS in just a few minutes.

If your use case is #2, I’m afraid we cannot help since mingw/gcc are not available in our catalog of Perl packages/modules at this point.

Hope that helps,