ExtUtils::MM_Win95(3)

💅 ExtUtils::MM_Win95(3) — User Contributed Perl Documentation 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the little corner of Perl docs where we customize MakeMaker for Win9X — yes, that’s the whole vibe. This is the ExtUtils::MM_Win95(3) page, and it’s here to explain the Win9X-specific glue. 🎀

---

🌸 NAME 🌸

ExtUtils::MM_Win95 — method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

  You should not be using this module directly.

bestie, seriously — this is not a “load it yourself” situation. It’s an internal helper. 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is a subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Win32 containing changes necessary to get MakeMaker playing nice with command.com and other Win9Xisms. 💖

So yeah: it’s the Win9X-flavored layer on top of the Win32 one, and it carries the changes needed so MakeMaker doesn’t get into a whole thing with command.com and the rest of the Win9X quirks. periodt. 👑

💖 Overridden methods 💖

Most of these make up for limitations in the Win9x/nmake command shell. 😭

⭐ max_exec_len

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. 💀✨

⭐ os_flavor

Win95 and Win98 and WinME are collectively Win9x and Win32 — that’s the grouping. 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Code originally inside MM_Win32. Original author unknown. 🫶

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

Send patches and ideas to makemaker@perl.org.

See https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-MakeMaker.

---

okay that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 it’s from perl v5.42.0, dated 2023-04-04, and it’s the ExtUtils::MM_Win95(3) manual — slay and bye! 🎀✨