Jan Dubois wrote: >Could you (or anyone else) point me to the current setup instructions >for using Perl on cygwin and mingw? I haven't used it in a long while, >and back then you really had to use various development snapshots or >all manner of stuff didn't work. I hope things are much improved now, >but would prefer not to figure it all out by myself. > >I do want to have a test setup for all environments though, so that I >can test patches for all of them before committing them. > I don't know about building Perl under Cygwin, either using MinGW for a Win32-build or Cygwin itself for a Cygwin-build, but I often build Perl in a standard Win32 environment using MinGW. (I've never tried it under MSYS, though.)
Not sure if this is one of the things that you were asking about, but the instructions are trivial: Install MinGW into C:\MinGW (I have MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml) and install Sarathy's dmake into C:\dmake. Set your PATH to C:\MinGW\bin;C:\dmake;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem. cd to perl's win32/ sub-dir and type dmake. That's it! libwin32-0.24 also builds fine with such a Perl (perl Makefile.PL && dmake), albeit with half a dozen sub-dirs skipped. - Steve ------------------------------------------------ Radan Computational Ltd. The information contained in this message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the sender immediately. The unauthorized use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Radan Computational Ltd. The recipient(s) of this message should check it and any attached files for viruses: Radan Computational will accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
