On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:57:07PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Steve Hay wrote: > > I'm never sure if the win32/makefile.mk is relevant for Cygwin or not. > > It is certainly not used for doing Cygwin builds, but it is possible to > > use MinGW from within a Cygwin environment to create a "native" Win32 > > build. Does anyone know if that uses win32/makefile.mk or not? > > Yitzchak, perhaps? > > BTW, this is a thing to add in the "known problems" section > of perl592delta.pod, I think.
Which problem? N.B. Using cygwin's MinGW to build perl isn't yet documented as a supported option because it currently requires a patch to makemaker. I'm (slowly) looking into whether cygwin can be changed to not need the patch.
