On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Todd B <[email protected]> wrote: >> We don't support ActivePerl. Use VanillaPerl instead. (VanillaPerl >> is a minimal port of Perl via MinGW.) >> >> But on the whole you are right. It's FAR better to use native Win32 >> applications. > > Thanks for the insight. It sounds like Cygwin has some real limitations > which LSMB is running up against. At least I know it's probably not a > configuration issue. As it turns out, installing LSMB under Cygwin isn't > too difficult. For those inclined to try, just make sure you upgrade gcc to > version 4 in order to get the necessary Perl modules to build. > > When I have some time I'll have to look at a Win32 native solution. A quick > glance reveals that the current Vanilla Perl doesn't support Win2k, which > is, of course, the OS I'm working with. Maybe an older version of Vanilla > Perl will do just fine. If I come up with something workable, I'll give a > follow-up. > I would chat with the folks on the #win32 channel. I know Vista pre-SP1 was a real problem but due to MinGW issues. I did a lot of the testing for 1.2 on Windows XP. You might be able to build VanillaPerl on Windows 2000 using an appropriate version of MinGW....
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