I have a patch for libwin32-0.191 to build under Cygwin Perl, both 5.6 and 5.8. This is based on the work of Clive Nicolson a while back. This will give you the core Win32 methods, as well libraries like Win32::APIFile, Win32::Sound, Win32::Clipboard etc. There is still quite a bit of work to be done to cleanly integrate these into Cygwin Perl so that no patching is necessary That aside, from a user perspective these _should_ work fine (no guarantees.) Just remember that while ActivePerl will not require you to “use Win32” for core methods like Win32::GetOsVersion(), this version does. Also Win32 Perl code may use Win32 commands and paths, in which case you may have to do some porting. You are better off using the newer Cygwin packages, especially gcc and w32api, but I’m curious to see if older configurations will also work. Instructions, from the Cygwin shell: wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/libwin32-0.191.zip unzip libwin32-0.191.zip wget http://www.io.com/~rkitover/libwin32-0.191-port.diff patch –p0 < libwin32-0.191-port.diff cd libwin32-0.191 perl Makefile.PL && make && make test && make install Do NOT download the patch using a browser such as IE, the line ends will get converted and the patch will fail. Everything should work. If something fails, please send me an error report using this method: make test &> makelog gzip -9 makelog and mail makelog.gz to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can figure out what went wrong. Enjoy. -- Rafael Kitover
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