From: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: Re: gnu-win32, perl an NTrigue 12 Dec 1996 04:17:33 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-To: Nick DOT Ing-Simmons AT tiuk DOT ti DOT com Original-Cc: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199612111340 DOT NAA06316 AT pluto> Nick DOT Ing-Simmons AT tiuk DOT ti DOT 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 AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys AT keys DOT pgp DOT net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".