On  8 Feb 02, Jason E. Stewart writes:
> "John Utz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > 1. Any reason why this shouldnt build/run on a win2kbox with cygwin and
> > the latest activestate perl ( i am pretty sure that's 5.6.1 or so )?
> > given a choice, i tend to prefer unix. but since the expensive part
> > of this project is a windows app, and it's all supposed to be on one
> > box, i am sorta stuck.
> 
> I am led to believe that it is now possible to compile Xerces-C on
> cygwin. Once upon a time it was not. 
> 
> However, if you compile Xerces under cygwin wit g++, you'll have to
> compile perl with g++ as well - there's no standard ABI for C++, so
> all your code has to be compiled using the same compiler. ActiveState
> uses VC++.

Cygwin Setup now (optionally) includes perl.  Presumably you'd have
better chance of success with that.  I haven't tried it myself.  Our
four unix platforms is challenging enough for me at the moment...

Cheers,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)

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