ExtUti..._Win95(3perl)

✨ NAME ✨

ExtUtils::MM_Win95 — the method that customizes MakeMaker for Win9X 💅 (it lives in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, section 3perl, iykyk)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

You should not be using this module directly.

bestie. I mean it. do NOT use this one directly. 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: ExtUtils::MM_Win95 is a subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Win32. It's carrying all the little changes that are necessary to get MakeMaker playing nice with command.com and all the other Win9Xisms. 💖

Basically it's the Win32 module's little sibling who knows how to talk to the weird old shell. 🎀

🍓 Overridden methods 🍓

Most of these are out here making up for limitations in the Win9x/nmake command shell. Not their fault, they're doing their best. 😭

• max_exec_len — so Win98 literally chokes on things like Encode if we set the max length to nmake's max of 2K. 💀 So instead we go for a way more conservative value of 1K. lowkey safer, highkey necessary.
• os_flavor — Win95 and Win98 and WinME are collectively Win9x and Win32. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The code was originally inside MM_Win32. Original author? unknown. a mystery, an icon, we'll never know. 🕵️‍♀️

Currently maintained by Michael G Schwern "schwern@pobox.com" ✨

Send patches and ideas to "makemaker@perl.org" — they want your thoughts, fr fr. 💌

Also, see https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-MakeMaker 🌈

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that's the whole page, bestie — no cap. 💜

signing off from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17 — stay slay, stay patched, and remember: you should not be using this module directly. periodt. 🎀💖