Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/08/30/03:50:08
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> Am Montag, 30. August 2004 um 02:14 schriebst du:
>>>I think I can include libwin32 with the main perl package, but
>>>there are problems building it, there is a bug in some w32api
>>>headers and one part is not building at all (OLE).
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>
>>That would be cool if there was 1 package -- would more guarantee
>>them being in sync. I tend to agree...I guess I was lucky before
>>this -- either I got the libwin32 with the perl-dist, or libwin32
>>has been kept in sync with perl. Maybe the next release of perl was
>>kept in the "Experimental" state until the lib was sync'ed?
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> Well, you may keep the previous until libwin32 is updated.
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>>Why would there be a bug in building it? Has the win32 interface
>>changed since the last perl release or did the cygwin headers
>>somehow get mangled? Strange.
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> There is one problem with changed gcc behaviour, a switch is needed
> --enable-stdcall-fixup probably, then there is another unresolved
> problem with the OLE module.
Adding --enable-stdcall-fixup is optional, it only prints a warning, but
does the fixup nevertheless.
The OLE problems are more serious, I had no time to check it. Maybe Rafael?
I fixed Win32::API and C::Dynalib though.
Win32::GUI also improved since the latest perl-libwin32
> I'm thinking about changing the naming scheme, to reflect this.
Your should try to hardlink cygperl<ver>_<rel>.dll to cygperl<ver>.dll
IMHO it should work, but I haven't tested it.
>>Occasionally, I send emails to the "scripting guys" at Microsoft
>>asking to show some of their scripting talents in something other
>>than Visual Basic or some proprietary MS language. Would be sorta
>>neat if they demo'ed using standard scripting languages such as
>>bash, perl or python to do system management/ maintenance tasks. I
>>refer them to the cygwin platform as being a good place to
>>experiment with such languages and I've heard that perl is used
>>internally by programmers (not sure for what, though)...
>
> Windows comes with perl (well as an addon in the resource kit) since
> nearly 10 years.
you mean perl comes with windows... :)
windows comes with p2p since nearly 10 years, the src package since 6
months... :)
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