From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Re: gnu-win32, perl an NTrigue 12 Dec 1996 04:17:33 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199612111340.NAA06316@pluto> Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com wrote: > ... > > I would like to use above system to port perl5.003+ to gnu-win32, > with a view to porting perl/Tk on top of it. > > Do you know of any other attempts to port perl? You may already be aware of this, but a beta port of Perl5.003_7 to Win32 was just released by Activeware - note that this runs directly on Win32, uses only Microsoft makefiles, and is missing some key functions such as alarm() and fork(), so you might be better off porting Perl 5.003 directly to Gnu-Win32. The Activeware Perl does support access to some Win32 functions but these are probably irrelevant to perl/Tk - I would certainly like to see a native port of perl and perl/Tk. See www.activeware.com for more details, or ftp.activeware.com to download (the www site has been unavailable some of the time). Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".