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[[miniperl.exe]] (or just miniperl, when talking about building Perl for non-Windows OS) is created during build process.

This is kind of bootstrapping: some minimal perl is created without Dynaloader module, without PerlIO and multithreading, and after that this ''miniperl'' is used to facilitate entire Perl building process: it runs makedef.pl for example, buildext.pl and other helper scripts to build core extension modules at second, and to build perl.dll at first.

When talking about cross-compilation for WinCE, [miniperl.exe] is built at first, it runs on Windows, and helps in cross-compiling process to build perl running on WinCE.

This is why MSVC++ should also be installed and envidonment variables for local compiling should be in good shape.

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''Historical note:'' 5.6.0 version of perl for Win32 did not required building of [miniperl.exe]. Instead, some locally installed perl could be used, and there were '''HPERL''' macros to represent Perl running on host.

Building process for 5.8.0 and later include building of [miniperl.exe], just because there were done some changes into perl core so newer building process could be kept in better control.

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