EXTUTILS::MM_WIN95(3pm)

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version 5.42.3 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24

✨ ExtUtils::MM_Win95 ✨

okay so real talk, this is the ExtUtils::MM_Win95 page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, and it's a whole little vibe 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

ExtUtils::MM_Win95 — the method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X, no cap 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

  You should not be using this module directly.

literally that's the whole synopsis, bestie. look away. this is not for you 👑 (i mean it though — the manpage says it, not me)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this is a subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Win32 that carries all the little changes necessary to get MakeMaker playing nice with command.com and other Win9Xisms 🪟✨ think of it as the compatibility fairy godmother for the chaotic old Windows days fr fr.

🧚 Overridden methods 🧚

most of these are here to make up for limitations in the Win9x/nmake command shell 😭 the shell was not giving, so we work around it, periodt.

  • max_exec_len — so Win98 chokes on things like Encode if we set the max length to nmake's max of 2K 💀 so we go for a more conservative value of 1K instead. safety first, always 🌈
  • os_flavor — Win95 and Win98 and WinME are collectively Win9x and Win32 🫶 that's the whole point of this method, iykyk.

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

the code was originally inside MM_Win32. original author unknown 🙈 (a mystery icon, honestly)

currently maintained by Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com 🔥

send patches and ideas to makemaker@perl.org 📬 (they want them!! go off!!)

see https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-MakeMaker 🍓

okay and that's the page 🎀 this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, and it's giving ExtUtils::MM_Win95(3pm) main character energy — stay cozy, bestie, and don't call this module directly 💜🦋

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