Hello linda, Am Montag, 30. August 2004 um 02:14 schriebst du:
>> I think I can include libwin32 with the main perl package, but >> there are problems building it, there is a bug in some w32api >> headers and one part is not building at all (OLE). > That would be cool if there was 1 package -- would more guarantee > them being in sync. I tend to agree...I guess I was lucky before > this -- either I got the libwin32 with the perl-dist, or libwin32 > has been kept in sync with perl. Maybe the next release of perl was > kept in the "Experimental" state until the lib was sync'ed? Well, you may keep the previous until libwin32 is updated. > Why would there be a bug in building it? Has the win32 interface > changed since the last perl release or did the cygwin headers > somehow get mangled? Strange. There is one problem with changed gcc behaviour, a switch is needed --enable-stdcall-fixup probably, then there is another unresolved problem with the OLE module. > I wasn't aware that all modules have to be re-installed with > each bug-fix release as Reini suggests. I would have guessed that > it should only be necessary (and maybe not even then) between > major (5.4->5.6, 5.6->5.8, etc.) releases. Oh well. I'm thinking about changing the naming scheme, to reflect this. > I think it'd be great if the win32-lib library became part of the > perl-win32 release. It seems that which perl is often used for > (system admin scripts and such) would be more difficult or not > possible without the win32 interface. > It would also make for a more stable win32 development platform, I > think. > Occasionally, I send emails to the "scripting guys" at Microsoft > asking to show some of their scripting talents in something other > than Visual Basic or some proprietary MS language. Would be sorta > neat if they demo'ed using standard scripting languages such as > bash, perl or python to do system management/ maintenance tasks. I > refer them to the cygwin platform as being a good place to > experiment with such languages and I've heard that perl is used > internally by programmers (not sure for what, though)... Windows comes with perl (well as an addon in the resource kit) since nearly 10 years. 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/