Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/18/19:27:33
From: | "David Christensen" <dchristensen AT california DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.perl.misc
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Subject: | Re: djgpp, Win98, Perl, and serial port
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Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:18:22 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bbirthisel AT aol DOT com <Bbirthisel AT aol DOT com>
To: dchristensen AT california DOT com <dchristensen AT california DOT com>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: djgpp, Win98, Perl, and serial port
Hi David:
> I have been posting all our e-mail conversations on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp and comp.lang.perl.misc. I hope that's OK with
you...
Ok with me. But this one, which includes data and email address for
the gentleman in Japan, may not be appropriate. I would edit those
out if you re-post. <removed -- David>
> This thread is getting pretty heavy into DJGPP only, so I'm going
to stop cross-posting to comp.lang.perl.misc starting with this
message.
Mostly off topic there, although it was on when it started.
> Eli Zaretskii is one of the authors of "GNU Software for
MS-Windows and MS-DOS and Compatible Systems"
(http://www.fsf.org/order/windows.html). He hangs around on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp, and is a good sport about us all pestering him
;-). I highly recommend his book/ CD to anyone who develops on MS
boxes.
He might be one to ask about porting the Win32::API module. He
would at least have a clue as to who we should REALLY ask.
>> There are at least three sets of "serial libraries" for DJGPP...
> - if you need a serial communications package, check out the
SVAsync library.
Used that one.
> - another package for serial communications, called BCSERIO, was
written by Bill Currie. BCSERIO is available from Bill's home page.
Experimented with it. I don't recall building a complete
application.
> - if you need serial communications from programs that use the
Allegro library, try DZComm, which is available from the
v2tk/allegro directory on the usual DJGPP sites.
New to me.
> I just went to my local CPAN mirror to see what ports were
available and both
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/ActiveState/ and
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/Standard/ were
empty! I'm confused %-(
Hmm... they were both ok on my CPAN mirror this morning.
> Have you heard of Cygnus (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/)?
Yes. I use their tools all the time and the compiler periodically.
> As I understand it, they wrote a DLL that provides a Un*x
(Posix?)
Un*x. I don't have the most recent compiler, but the older ones had
some difficulties linking with Win32 libraries - so the choice was
"all-or-nothing" rather than a blend of options. I've heard they
have made progress in this area.
> >The other alternative is an XS implementation...
> What's XS?
The glue language for writing Perl<->C extensions. If you have to
ask, it's not an available option ;-)
-bill
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