From:	"David Christensen" <dchristensen AT california DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: djgpp, Win98, Perl, and serial port
Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:50:51 -0700
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comp.os.msdos.djgpp & Bill:

I have been posting all our e-mail conversations on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp and comp.lang.perl.misc.  I hope that's OK with
you...


This thread is getting pretty heavy into DJGPP only, so I'm going
to stop cross-posting to comp.lang.perl.misc starting with this
message.


>I'm not sure who Eli is.

Eli Zaretskii is one of the authors of "GNU Software for MS-Windows
and MS-DOS and Compatible Systems"
(http://www.fsf.org/order/windows.html).  He hangs around on
comp.os.msdos.djgpp, and is a good sport about us all pestering him
;-).  I highly recommend his book/ CD to anyone who develops on MS
boxes.


> There are at least three sets of "serial libraries" for DJGPP...

I just downloaded the lastest DJGPP FAQ (Edition 2.11, for DJGPP
Version 2.01 September 1998, Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
1998 Eli Zaretskii.) from the Simtel mirror
(ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/). Under "22.3
Where to find sample DJGPP code or a package ported to DJGPP?", it
says:

- if you need a serial communications package, check out the
SVAsync library.

- another package for serial communications, called BCSERIO, was
written by Bill Currie. BCSERIO is available from Bill's home page.

- if you need serial communications from programs that use the
Allegro library, try DZComm, which is available from the
v2tk/allegro directory on the usual DJGPP sites.


Does anyone have any comments/ recommendations on any of these
libraries?


>> back up plan ... CPAN first, ActivePerl second.

>The 5.005 version is a bit more portable...

I just went to my local CPAN mirror to see what ports were
available and both
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/ActiveState/ and
ftp://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/CPAN/ports/win32/Standard/ were
empty!  I'm confused %-(


>to compile in the Win32::API module...

Have you heard of Cygnus (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/)?
As I understand it, they wrote a DLL that provides a Un*x (Posix?)
API layer sitting on top of the Win32 API.  They then ported over a
bunch of Gnu stuff, including gcc.  It's now self-hosting.  They
also make cross-compilers hosted on Win32.  I got a source CD at
the last Silicon Valley Linux User Group (http://www.svlug.org/)
meeting, but have yet to try compiling their compiler so I can
compile everything else (I wish they had just put a compiler/ DLL
binary on the CD, but I think they sell/ license (?) those -- I'm
not sure how "free" it is).


>The other alternative is an XS implementation...

What's XS?


--
David Christensen
dchristensen AT california DOT com





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