On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:42:21PM -0800, linda w wrote:I thought there had been a fix in the works for this problem -- I wanted to write a program using cygwin perl to access/modify the Registry.
When I load the Win32 package from cpan and try building it, I get
a familiar error message "IsWinNT" is undefined, so building and
installing cpan registry access routines isn't possible.
Is there something else that would break if "IsWinNT" is set to "true" if the underlying OS is NT based (or IsWin95 for Win9x/Me)?
I might be able to use ActiveState's Perl, but it doesn't play so well with CPAN and doesn't seem to handle Cygwin paths very well either.
Was there a work-around for this?
Upgrade to perl5.8.6, which addresses the IsWinNT-missing problem. Also, I believe Reini will be releasing a new version of perl-libwin32 real soon now.
The interim version is at http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/perl-libwin32 (use http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/ as setup "User URL:")
But I want to wait a bit for Rafael's answer about maintainership change, and for confirmation on the new libwin32 list about my proposed new Win32::Process functions and version bump.
perl-win32-gui and perl-win32-api will be the next.
New clamav and postgresql versions are also pending. Still some problems there (upstream and here).
-- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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