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Date:	Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:37:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Installing the Win32:: modules for Cygwin Perl
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, caelum AT debian DOT org
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:20:13 -0800 Rafael Kitover <caelum AT debian DOT org> wrote:

> I have a patch for libwin32-0.191 to build under Cygwin Perl, both 5.6
> and 5.8. This is based on the work of Clive Nicolson a while back.
>  
> This will give you the core Win32 methods, as well libraries like
> Win32::APIFile, Win32::Sound, Win32::Clipboard etc.
>  
> There is still quite a bit of work to be done to cleanly integrate these
> into Cygwin Perl so that no patching is necessary

Have you sent this patch to Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar AT ActiveState DOT com>?
It would be nice to have as much as possible of it included in the
base package.  He made the first port of Perl to Cygwin, so he'd
probably be glad to fix any problems someone finds.

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