From: Moogla Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Perl/CGI for Win98 Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 22:53:49 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 32 Message-ID: <37AA4E3D.4B6928E0@lan.tjhsst.edu> References: <37a9fbac AT news5 DOT newsfeeds DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.44.13 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 6 Aug 1999 02:51:22 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com David Christensen wrote: > Hello, World! > > I run the FSF distribution ("GNU Software for MS-DOS and > MS-Windows") of DJGPP on Win98. Best free software I ever paid > for! :-) > > I see that there is a /fsf/lib/perl5/cgi directory. Has anyone > done Perl/CGI using DJGPP on Win98? Any pointers for a newbie? > Which httpd? Which browser? Absolutely does not matter. As long as the perl apps produce valid CGI responses on stdout (that is html), you're set. Of course, your httpd of choice must support perl execution. Fortunately, you can use your perl scripts with my favorite httpd, Sambar (www.sambar.com) It can run perl, regular command-line programs, even win-cgi or batch files. Wahoo! Note that you don't even need DJGPP to make perl for sambar... since it does already the compilation that the DJGPP port of perl would.Only get perl if you want to also run perl scripts from the command line (as opposed to using batch files). But DJGPP is good for compiling C/C++ written CGI scripts. Here's a simple one to try once you get your httpd up and running: #include "stdio.h" void main (void) { printf("Content-type: text/html\n\nHello, World!"); }