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                      Win32::SharedFileOpen, Version 3.33
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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 runtime libraries that
        contain the functions which this module provides interfaces to.

    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 runtime DLL to that loaded by perl itself.  Note that Visual
        Studio 98 (VC++ 6) and earlier produce binaries that require the
        system's msvcrt.dll, while Visual Studio .NET/2003 (VC++ 7) and later
        (including the free Visual C++ Toolkit 2003) produce binaries that
        require compiler-specific DLL's named msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll, etc.
        Therefore, building this module with the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 for use
        with any ActivePerl, which are known currently to be built with Visual
        Studio 98, 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 didn't 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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