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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:26:41 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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To: Jason Pearce <jason DOT pearce AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Win32::API perl module
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Jason Pearce schrieb:
> I have been trying to compile up Win32::API perl module under Cygwin's 
> perl.
> 
> The latest version off CPAN doesn't build (see below).

http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.41-cygwin.patch
=>
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.42.tar.gz

just the new-style win32 callbacks do not work that way with gcc.
old style it worked, but backporting seemed to much effort for me.

> I have found some refernces to patches people have applied to get it 
> working in the past.  In particular Win32:API version 0.20.
>    http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/libwin32/Win32-API-0.20cygwin/
> But I was unable to get that working either, maybe because the 
> Cygwin.dll and/or Perl (v5.8.2) has moved on since that patch was done?
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has got it working for themselves?
> If not, I'd really appreciate someone taking a look. I am happy to do 
> some of my own dirty work, but I have little knowledge of the Cygwin.dll 
> so I really struggle to know where to look. I gather Win32::API is 
> relying on a hook that the Cygwin.dll is not providing?
> 
> All I really need this for is to call a procedure in a DLL, that does 
> some port IO for me. At the moment my work around is to use Active State 
> perl, for which Win32::API does build, but it would be better to only 
> have one version of Perl around.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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