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                      Win32::SharedFileOpen, Version 3.44
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PREREQUISITES

    Windows

        This module only works on "native" (i.e. non-Cygwin) Microsoft Windows
        platforms since only those platforms have C run-time libraries
        containing the functions to which this module provides interfaces.

    Compiler

        You need a C compiler to build this module.

        Note that you should try to use the same compiler as was used to build
        your Perl itself.

        In particular, this module will not work correctly if it loads a
        different C run-time DLL to that loaded by perl itself.  Note that
        Visual C++ 6.0 (part of Visual Studio 6.0) and earlier produce binaries
        that require the system's msvcrt.dll, while Visual C++ .NET (aka Visual
        C++ 7.0, part of Visual Studio .NET), Visual C++ .NET 2003 (aka Visual
        C++ 7.1, part of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the free Visual C++ Toolkit
        2003), Visual C++ 2005 (aka Visual C++ 8.0, part of Visual Studio 2005
        and the free Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition) and later produce binaries
        that require compiler-specific DLLs named msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll,
        msvcr80.dll etc.  Therefore, building this module with anything later
        than VC6 for use with ActivePerl, which is known currently to be built
        with VC6, will not work.

        The Makefile.PL script will try to detect if a different compiler is
        being used and will give an error if necessary.  Note, however, that it
        is not always possible for it to detect which particular compiler
        version was used to build Perl, especially for Perl version 5.8.6 or
        older, which did not have this information stored in the standard
        library module Config.

    Perl

        Perl version 5.6.0 or later.
        The latest version of Perl is available from http://www.perl.com/.

    Perl Modules

        The only non-standard Perl module required by this module is:

            Win32::WinError

        This is part of the "libwin32" distribution, which is almost invariably
        present in Perl installations on Microsoft Windows platforms anyway, and
        is available from CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/).

INSTALLATION

    To install this module, cd to the directory that contains this INSTALL file
    and type the following:

        perl Makefile.PL
        nmake
        nmake test
        nmake install

    Use "dmake" rather than "nmake" in the commands above if that is what your
    Perl was built with.  To determine which make program was used to build your
    Perl type the following:

        perl -V:make
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