Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/26/16:12:05
George wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote:
>
>
>>Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure environment
>>variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it will fail. (You
>>might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes).
>>Also be aware that you may have trouble building some modules that use C
>>code and have not been ported to Cygwin, mainly OS modules like WIN32.
>>Straight Perl modules should just work out of the box, and CPAN will get
>>all pre-requisites for you too. You'll never want ppm again!
>
>
> Sorry to go off on a slight tangent here, but is there any documentation
> anywhere that describe which Win32 modules are problematic, as it's most
> likely that for Cygwin users the Win32 modules are of particular
> interest, no? And installing both Cygwin's Perl and ActiveState's
> distribution can offer a less than satisfactory solution as it presents
> its own set of problems.
There is an up to date version of libwin32 as well as Win32CORE included
in the perl distributed, it *should* be possible to build some (not all)
of the Win32 modules, though I have not tried to build much of them.
Just try one or another if it is not already included with libwin32.
Gerrit
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