Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/12/12/08:50:54
Many thanks,
just FYI, I'm back at Thursday or Friday and will prepare the 5.8.6
release then for the following weekend.
Gerrit
Reini Urban wrote:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:34:09AM -0800, a c wrote:
>>
>>> cpan> install Win32
>>
>>
>> Win32 is rather a special case. There are parts of Win32:: that are
>> actually compiled into the win32 perl (but *not* cygwin) builds.
>> And, as of late, the whole Win32 module is included with win32 perls
>> (though not the other modules in the libwin32 distribution).
>>
>> Unfortunately, the libwin32 code needed some changes to work with
>> cygwin; a separate release installable through cygwin setup was
>> created, but that was build to work with 5.8.2, and the cygwin perl
>> has since been updated to 5.8.5 (and soon 5.8.6). I've seen talk
>> about remedying this, but don't know where it's at at the moment.
>>
>> Ideally the changes needed for cygwin would be integrated back into
>> the version of libwin32 on CPAN, but no one has been maintaining that
>> for a while. Jan Dubois of ActiveState recently announced that they
>> would be looking at patches that have been submitted and trying to get
>> a new CPAN release ready in the first part of next year.
>> So, if the patches needed for cygwin get submitted (I think via
>> rt.cpan.org), they may get included, and the rest of the CPAN
>> distribution will work.
>>
>> For the Win32 module itself, some work needs to be done within perl
>> itself to get it built for cygwin.
>
>
> I have an updated perl-libwin32 version ready,
> but I wanted to wait for gerrit's pending perl-5.8.6 update.
> (rt.cpan.org patch not yet submitted, some ole and libiodbc issues.)
>
> It will be released then. perl-win32-gui will be a seperate new module.
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