Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:37:17 -0800 (PST) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: Installing the Win32:: modules for Cygwin Perl To: cygwin@cygwin.com, caelum@debian.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <000601c2ba09$cde00d80$0201a8c0@ISIS> In-Reply-To: <000601c2ba09$cde00d80$0201a8c0@ISIS> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id h0C7Vge25859 On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:20:13 -0800 Rafael Kitover wrote: > I have a patch for libwin32-0.191 to build under Cygwin Perl, both 5.6 > and 5.8. This is based on the work of Clive Nicolson a while back. >   > This will give you the core Win32 methods, as well libraries like > Win32::APIFile, Win32::Sound, Win32::Clipboard etc. >   > There is still quite a bit of work to be done to cleanly integrate these > into Cygwin Perl so that no patching is necessary Have you sent this patch to Gurusamy Sarathy ? It would be nice to have as much as possible of it included in the base package. He made the first port of Perl to Cygwin, so he'd probably be glad to fix any problems someone finds. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/