From: John Haugabook <johnhaugab...@gmail.com> One of the tips was mentioned in "[PATCH 1/4] cygwin: faq-programming-6.21 add 5 required packages", which is the error: """"""""""""""" could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/XML/SAX Can't locate XML/SAX/Expat.pm in @INC (you may need to install the XML::SAX::Expat module) (@INC entries checked: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.40 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40 /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/5.40) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/XML/SAX.pm line 147. """""""""""""""
and running: > perl -MXML::SAX -e 'XML::SAX->add_parser(q(XML::SAX::Expat)); > XML::SAX->save_parsers()' will resolve this error. But note - out of the several times I've gone through the installation, I have had to run this command twice. All all but one of the installs it did not throw the error for some reason. In the case that someone is using a similar OS (Windows 10 and 11), architecture (x64-based PC), and/or version of cygwin (3.6.3) for building cygwin from newlib-cygwin, this commit may prevent those errors from occurring. Signed-off-by: John Haugabook <johnhaugab...@gmail.com> --- winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml index fa3f097a9..093d05940 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-programming.xml @@ -736,6 +736,18 @@ Otherwise, if you are trying to duplicate a cygwin release then you should download the corresponding source package (<literal>cygwin-x.y.z-n-src.tar.bz2</literal>). </para> +<para> +<emphasis role='bold'>Tip:</emphasis> ensure Perl's XML::SAX module knows +about installed parsers by running: +</para> +<screen>perl -MXML::SAX -e 'XML::SAX->add_parser(q(XML::SAX::Expat)); XML::SAX->save_parsers()'</screen> + +<para> +in the cygwin terminal. If an error appears, stating: +<code>could not find ParserDetails.ini ...</code>, then running the command +once more should resolve this. +</para> + <para>You <emphasis>must</emphasis> build cygwin in a separate directory from the source, so create something like a <literal>build/</literal> directory. Assuming you checked out the source to -- 2.49.0.windows.1
