From: nik@tiuk.ti.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) Subject: Re: gnu-win32, perl an NTrigue 12 Dec 1996 04:44:56 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612121218.MAA04010.cygnus.gnu-win32@pluto> References: Original-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com In-Reply-To: from Richard Donkin on Thu, 12 Dec 96 11: 44 GMT0 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Richard Donkin writes: >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, I have heard of it - as a long time member of perl5-porters I have also heard that sources have been hacked-about ... >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. That is my impression. >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. When you say "native" - do you consider GNU-Win32 "native"? - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".