From: sysadmin AT almus DOT com (Jon S. Jaques) Subject: Re: looking for cygnus compatible perl 18 Dec 1997 16:10:17 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd0be6$8b20d410$0200dede.cygnus.gnu-win32@epsilon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "B. Elizabeth Trojan" Cc: >Is there a version of Perl available for win32 that is Cygnus >compatible? By Cygnus compatible I mean accepts UNC paths and >knows about cygnus mounts. That would be "the" Perl; ie that is v5.004_04, the very same that is compiled under Unix/Linux. (http://www.perl.org/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz ) Is it easy? Supposedly, although I've not yet gotten it to work, but haven't given up. Assuming that you've installed "cdk.exe" into the default location, there're two updates you need: 1.) The new cygwin.dll, and 2.) Chris Faylor's Perl patch which is specific to Cygwin32 installation/compilation. (The cygwin.dll seems to be distributed from a users' site, along with a new Bash.exe, among other things, and I can't tell if their presence, or lack thereof, affects the perl install/compile.) These are the steps that were advised to me: >>Here is what I would try: >> >> mkdir /usr/src/perl >> mount -b c:\usr\src\perl /perlsrc >> bash >> cd /perlsrc >> tar xzf /wherever/perl5.004_04.tar.gz >> mv perl5.004_04/* . >> tar xzf /whereever/cygperl5.004_04.pat.tar.gz >> /bin/sh cygperlpat5.004_04 >> patch -p1 -N < cygperlpat5.004_04 >> sh Configure And then, when it didn't work, we went here: >It is a prerequisite that you are able to compile programs. Does your >gcc work? Can you successfully build a simple "hello world" program? > >Also, the patched README file *does not* say to copy files anywhere. Note this last, which IS different from the original Perl README. If you've already followed those instructions, then I'd reccomend deleting the files "gcc2" and "ld2" which you theoretically already copied into your path. Personally, I can compile a simple file, program1.cpp ("hello world") with *g++* but NOT gcc (a friend suggested that the file was a "plus-plus" and that gcc is not, but I don't really know much about either... my primary reason for this thing is just to get the new Perl compiled on my system to open up some options in my Perl programming... one language at a time, ple ase! ) Please, if you have no luck, then lets' continue this dialogue-- I'd really like to get this resolved. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".