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 Message-ID: <42221BA5.8000200@familiehaase.de> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:12:37 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ariel Burbaickij CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: libperl.dll References: <3058f9b405022501255f17b3fc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3058f9b405022501255f17b3fc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello mailing list participants, > xchat in binary form as provided by cygnome requires libperl.dll in > some particular > version (5.6.1) in my case. File is not available in my installation > and the version > of perl used is considerably higher 5.8. So well the simple symlink > from libperl.5.8.1.dll.a > work or is the required version the only thing that will be accepted. > If yes, is anyone > aware of any trustworthy places where I can get it? 5.6.x perl releases are outdated and no longer supported. You cannot copy the 5.8 perl DLL to substitute 5.6 perl because: 1. the rest of perl-5.6.x is no longer available 2. 5.6 and 5.8 are not binary compatible Rebuild xchat against the latest perl. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/