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A while back I was attempting to produce a Win32 PAR of a Catalyst app I am developing so that the "designer" could take my half-arsed attempt at HTML styling and make it look all swish and polished. (Well that was the idea anyway.)

The one major problem with porting a Cat app to Win32 was Cache::FastMmap (which is used via Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap) doesn't support native Win32 (it might work under cygwin, but i was hoping for native/Vanilla perl support.) Well, it didn't until last week anyway, when I finally found the time to write native Win32 support using a joyous mis-mash of CreateFileMapping and MapViewOfFile. Until Rob Mueller responds and applies my patch I have a dist of it here.

On a related note, if anyone can tell me how to make ExtUtils::MakeMaker use different .c/.o files depending on the platform, I would appreciate it.

Edit: including different object files is easy. It just helps to remember that Makefile.PL is just perl code (sounds silly I know - quite obvious in hindsight,) so just do

'OBJECT'        => 'CImpl.o mmap_cache.o ' . ($^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'win32.o' : 'unix.o')

That was simple.

I have repackaged and updated to include win32.c which I missed, and removed evilness of including .c files. The above link is still correct