Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/21/20:00:37
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> Description
> =====================================
>
> The libwin32 Perl library that provides access to the Win32 API, and is
> installed by default with ActivePerl, is now available as a Cygwin package.
>
> The CORE Win32 methods in ActivePerl such as Win32::GetLastError() (see man
> Win32 or perldoc Win32) are also available as an extension.
>
> Also included is version 0.0.670 of the actively developed Win32::GUI library,
> providing access the Win32 graphical APIs.
>
> A lot of this functionality is already available through the /proc interface
> and various utilities bundled with Cygwin, but this allows greater
> compatibility with CPAN modules and various scripts written for ActivePerl on
exceedingly cool...
Just curious, but are the code patches to do this merged into the standard
distributions (ie: the standard libwin32 api (which I think is with perl itself)?
And does this work in mingw mode (ie: with -mno-cygwin)?
Thanks much,
Ed
(ps - also, do you know the difference perchance between Win32::GUI and
Win32::GUITest? Can you do mouse events, supply keys to applications, etc?
(
pps - as for the other Win32:: modules, do you know their status
(Win32::AdminMisc, etc)? I'd very much like to be able to do pretty much
everything I can do with ActiveState under cygwin (and possibly mingw)
perl, and that means setting up services, setting environment variables, testing
GUIs via sending keystrokes and mouse-events, modifying registry varbs, etc.
libwin32 does some of this stuff, but not all...
anyways, thanks again - even if this other stuff isn't implemented, the libwin32_api
is a start..
)
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