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From: "Eric Fifer" <egf7 AT columbia DOT edu>
To: "'Louis Bohm'" <lbohm AT lightbridge DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Getting Perl to run win32 commands
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:23:42 -0000
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>I am trying to get perl to run win32 commands and 
>it is not working well.

I assume you mean call Win32 API/SDK functions.

>Before I go any further will it be possible to get 
>this running on cygwin?  Will I be able to do 
>things like NetAdmin::GetUsers and other NT user 
>base things?

It should work, you can call most of the Win32 API
from Cygwin.  I have found the main issues with
porting Win32 specific Perl modules are compiler
differences (MSVC, Borland v. gcc) and differing
usage of preprocessor #defines (the native Perl
Win32 port uses WIN32, cygwin uses __CYGWIN__,
access to win32isms however may be needed either
via _WIN32 or something similar).

Regards,

Eric Fifer


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