Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:01:50 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl 5.8.6 Message-ID: <20050109230150.GA180@efn.org> References: <41AE7F15.5030908@x-ray.at> <41AF2A74.5040503@familiehaase.de> <20041202173807.GA124@efn.org> <41B04E4F.50409@familiehaase.de> <20041208193053.GD612@efn.org> <20041209123219.GA1644@efn.org> <41E165CE.7010407@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41E165CE.7010407@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 06:11:42PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:30:53AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > >>Gerrit, I've hoped to have some time to work on Win32:: stuff on the > >>perl side, but haven't gotten around to it. For 5.8.6, could you give > >>a try to including the Win32CORE module from the perl-libwin32 package > >>as a static extension and the Win32 module as a dynamic extension (and > >>bootstrap Win32CORE in cygwin.c)? If it works, that would make cygwin > >>have equivalent to what's in win32 perl. > > > > > >Here's the Win32CORE part. I'd really like to see the builtin Win32:: > >functions be available in the cygwin perl, and this seems the easiest > >way to do it for just a cygwin release, but in the longer term I'm > >really hoping to get the equivalent (only newer now) code in from the > >regular win32 perl build shared between win32 and cygwin by the time > >5.8.7 is ready. AIUI cutoff for that will be February 1st. Unfortunately, this is looking unlikely at this point. I've been working on getting a regular win32 build to work under cygwin so I can do testing, but haven't had enough time to get very far with actually making the code shared. > >This patch should apply to the perl-5.8.6 source, and the tarball has > >the new files for the Win32CORE extension. Those are taken verbatim > >from the perl-libwin32 package, except that I added a "no warnings > >"redefine"' to the Win32CORE.pm so those who use it don't get warnings. > >I didn't make it just a no-op in case there are people sharing modules > >between different versions of perl. > > Hmmm, getting this error: > > Skipping lib/auto/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.a (directory does not exist) Can I have a little more context? If this is during the make, this is what I see: chmod 755 ../../lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sthoenna/dl/tmp/perl-5.8.6/ext/DynaLoader' Making Win32CORE (static_pic) Processing hints file hints/cygwin.pl Writing Makefile for Win32CORE make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sthoenna/dl/tmp/perl-5.8.6/ext/Win32CORE' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sthoenna/dl/tmp/perl-5.8.6/ext/Win32CORE' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sthoenna/dl/tmp/perl-5.8.6/ext/Win32CORE' cp Win32CORE.pm ../../lib/Win32CORE.pm gcc -c -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -pipe -DUSEIMPORTLIB -g -DVERSION=\"0.01\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.01\" "-I../.." -DMODULE -DBACKPORT Win32CORE.c rm -rf ../../lib/auto/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.a /usr/bin/ar cr ../../lib/auto/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.a Win32CORE.o && : ../../lib/auto/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.a chmod 755 ../../lib/auto/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.a make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sthoenna/dl/tmp/perl-5.8.6/ext/Win32CORE' -- 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/