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 Message-ID: <41BC4CB8.2060501@familiehaase.de> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:50:48 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Reini Urban CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, a c Subject: Re: building perl modules in cygwin References: <20041208163409.40443.qmail@web52706.mail.yahoo.com> <20041208191651.GB612@efn.org> <41B85A64.2000504@x-ray.at> In-Reply-To: <41B85A64.2000504@x-ray.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Many thanks, just FYI, I'm back at Thursday or Friday and will prepare the 5.8.6 release then for the following weekend. Gerrit Reini Urban wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: > >> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:34:09AM -0800, a c wrote: >> >>> cpan> install Win32 >> >> >> Win32 is rather a special case. There are parts of Win32:: that are >> actually compiled into the win32 perl (but *not* cygwin) builds. >> And, as of late, the whole Win32 module is included with win32 perls >> (though not the other modules in the libwin32 distribution). >> >> Unfortunately, the libwin32 code needed some changes to work with >> cygwin; a separate release installable through cygwin setup was >> created, but that was build to work with 5.8.2, and the cygwin perl >> has since been updated to 5.8.5 (and soon 5.8.6). I've seen talk >> about remedying this, but don't know where it's at at the moment. >> >> Ideally the changes needed for cygwin would be integrated back into >> the version of libwin32 on CPAN, but no one has been maintaining that >> for a while. Jan Dubois of ActiveState recently announced that they >> would be looking at patches that have been submitted and trying to get >> a new CPAN release ready in the first part of next year. >> So, if the patches needed for cygwin get submitted (I think via >> rt.cpan.org), they may get included, and the rest of the CPAN >> distribution will work. >> >> For the Win32 module itself, some work needs to be done within perl >> itself to get it built for cygwin. > > > I have an updated perl-libwin32 version ready, > but I wanted to wait for gerrit's pending perl-5.8.6 update. > (rt.cpan.org patch not yet submitted, some ole and libiodbc issues.) > > It will be released then. perl-win32-gui will be a seperate new module. -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/