Configurations/10-main.conf: amend out-dated comments.
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ sub vc_win64a_info {
asflags => "-Ox -f win64 -DNEAR",
asoutflag => "-o " };
} elsif ($disabled{asm}) {
+ # assembler is still used to compile uplink shim
$vc_win64a_info = { AS => "ml64",
ASFLAGS => "/Zi",
asflags => "/c /Cp /Cx",
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ sub vc_win32_info {
asoutflag => "-o ",
perlasm_scheme => "win32n" };
} elsif ($disabled{asm}) {
+ # not actually used, uplink shim is inlined into C code
$vc_win32_info = { AS => "ml",
ASFLAGS => "/nologo /Zi",
asflags => "/Cp /coff /c /Cx",
@@ -1460,8 +1462,10 @@ my %targets = (
multilib => "-x64",
},
"VC-WIN32" => {
- # x86 Win32 target defaults to ANSI API, if you want UNICODE,
- # configure with 'perl Configure VC-WIN32 -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE'
+ # x86 Win32 target used to default to ANSI API, but not anymore,
+ # UNICODE is the only option. The original reason for providing
+ # UNICODE as opt-in option was because ANSI API was *native*
+ # system interface for [no longer supported] Windows 9x.
inherit_from => [ "VC-noCE-common", asm("x86_asm"),
sub { $disabled{shared} ? () : "uplink_common" } ],
CFLAGS => add("-WX"),
