Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <41B85A64.2000504@x-ray.at> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:00:04 +0100 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com CC: a c Subject: Re: building perl modules in cygwin References: <20041208163409 DOT 40443 DOT qmail AT web52706 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <20041208191651 DOT GB612 AT efn DOT org> In-Reply-To: <20041208191651.GB612@efn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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/