RE: Cygwin port of Perl broken on Win32? Or does Cygwin not run on win32?

["Joaquin" <winminion at realmspace dot com>]

I just always use non-Cygwin tools first before Cygwin ports.
Thus, for Perl, I use the ActiveState Perl in my path ahead of the
Cygwin perl.  I also do the same for other things like Apache.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of linda w
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:52 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Cygwin port of Perl broken on Win32? Or does Cygwin
> not run on win32?
>
>
> I was told this is a problem specific to Cygwin -- that
> Cygwin believes it isn't runing on a Win platform.  Is this
> true?  I knowt he goal is to
> provide
> posix compatibility, but that doesn't mean it has to strive
> for windows incompatibility unless it breaks posix
> compatibility ...no?  yes?  maybe?
>
> -linda
>
> linda w wrote:
>
> >  I'm trying to run a program that needs Registry.pm.  I
> pull it down
> > as part of Win32::Registry, but when I try to 'make' it, it fails:
> >
> > ...
> > Writing Makefile for Win32::ODBC
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Processing hints file hints/cygwin.pl
> > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lole32
> > Note (probably harmless): No library found for -loleaut32 Note
> > (probably harmless): No library found for -luuid Note (probably
> > harmless): No library found for -lmsvcrt40 Writing Makefile for
> > Win32::OLE Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Writing Makefile for Win32::PerfLib
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Writing Makefile for Win32::Pipe
> > ERROR from evaluation of
> > //ishtar/share/CPAN/build-win/libwin32-0.191/Process/Ma
> > kefile.PL: Undefined subroutine &Win32::IsWinNT called at
> > ./Makefile.PL line 4.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on why this is breaking or how to make this
> > work?  Is
> > it something broken in the cygwin "port", of perl, on Win32?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Linda W.
> >
> >
> >
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