From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: djgpp, Win98, Perl, and serial port
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David Christensen wrote:

> I'm not sure who Eli is. There are at least three sets of "serial
> libraries" for DJGPP.

These add-on libraries are only needed if Perl package(s) that use
serial communications require functionality that the DOS COM1 driver 
doesn't supply (e.g., if they call ioctl etc.).  Otherwise, simply 
treating COM1 as if it were a file is enough.

> If someone were compiling  a DJGPP Perl, it would make sense to try
> to compile in the Win32::API module.

No, Windows won't allow DOS programs issue Win32 API calls, so this is
a dead end.

> I haven't tried compiling Perl on
> Win95 (recently - it used to be "impossible"- I'm not sure about
> the current status).

It is possible to compile the DJGPP version of Perl on Windows 95 for at 
least a year.  I did that myself when I worked on the FSF CD-ROM.