Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/02/22:22:08
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Reini Urban wrote:
> Igor Peshansky schrieb:
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Richard Foulk wrote:
> > > Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via
> > > a Perl script on a system with Cygwin.
> > [snip]
> > Theoretically, it should be as simple as
> >
> > use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox);
> > MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64);
> >
> > However, the Win32::GUI module fails to load for me at the moment,
> > claiming the DLL is not found. I have no time to investigate and create a
> > proper bug report, but if it works for you -- great.
>
> Uh? Need not be very proper.
> Which dll? Which versions (perl and win32-gui)?
Ok, here you go:
$ uname -svr
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.159/4/2) 2006-07-29 22:39
$ cygcheck -cd perl perl-libwin32
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
perl 5.8.7-5
perl-libwin32 0.26-1
$ perl -e 'use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox); MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64);'
Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll' for module Win32::GUI: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at -e line 1
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
At this point the perl.exe process started consuming 100% of the CPU and
allocating memory like crazy. I let it get to 1.2G before killing it
(took about 35 minutes). It did react to a Ctrl-C in the parent bash
window.
I wasn't able to open another Cygwin window and attach to the hanging
process with strace, because my system slowed down to a crawl and stopped
responding to most window messages. Perhaps I'll repeat the experiment
someday.
BTW,
$ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Administrators SYSTEM 861696 Jan 12 2004 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Win32/GUI/GUI.dll
Let me know if you want further details.
Igor
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