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Re: Which Perl?


Try the following URL for a Cygwin build:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.qub.com/group/

and the "canonical release at:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/win32/Standard/x86

Also, word on the street is that 5.005 (ported by Gurusamy-pronounced
"urusamy" ) builds seamlessy on NT, although a friend of mine already
built 5.003 w/o a hitch on his NT 4 (srvcpk 3) lotsa hotfixes - machine.

The binary also includes perl/tk (perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip), which
is great for cross platform click here type dialogs, although the same
friend of mine swears by calling win dialog boxes using a different type
of approach (he says it's fast and easy- I'm clueless).

Good luck
Allan

john_r_velman@mail.hac.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>      Is there a precompiled perl for cygwin32?  I've checked CPAN, and
>      also the cygnus pages.  Also the mail archives.  Sorry if I've missed
>      it, but I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the quantity of data, and haven't
>      succeeded in finding the answer.
> 
>       I've found the patch file,  perl5_004_04_tar.gz, but I think the
>      site I downloaded this from says it is for beta 18.  (I'm using 19.1,
>      just installed).
> 
>      I'm new to NT and new to cygwin, so would prefer a precompiled version
>      of something as daunting as perl for now.
> 
>      John Velman
>      jrvelman@hac.mail.com
> 
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YeP-perl

At the moment, there are two widely used perl Win32 ports - ActiveState (ex-ActiveWare) and "standard", or "official", Win32 perl, by Gurusamy Sarathy. Both of the ports are developed with significant effort paid for rewriting UNIX system calls with Windows native calls. Can't consider it to be laziness.

Cygwin project provides a free UNIX-like kernel for Windows NT/95. We provide YeP-perl (v 5.004_04 patched and built for Win32) that will work on Win32. Compare our distribution with any ActiveWare or Standard Win32 perl distributions. We plan to provide more perl extensions in the spirit of Laziness.

Install Cygwin tools. Take latest version of Coolview. Install YeP-Perl Build 1 we have built for you.

YeP-Perl Build 0 is here. YeP-Perl Build 2 would be based on perl5.005 betas. If you want something to appear in Build 2 - write us. Build 1 was produced as a feedback to your letters - your feedback on Build 1 is realy welcome!


Yep-Perl (Build 1)     Updated Jul 20.

-- perl for Win32.
Runs on Win32
Background Go take it - .tar.gz

mSQL v2.0 support for Win32 Status

Perl-Wish (Perl-Tix)     Updated Apr 25.

-- Perl-Tcl/Tk integration in a new fashion, perl with GUI.
Runs on any platform
Background Go take it - .zip or .tar.gz

Visual Perl debugger     Updated Apr 27.

-- GUI wrapper around standard perl5db.pl. Written in Perl-Wish.
-- You are able to debug UNIX/Windows CGI as well as ordinaly scripts.
Runs on UNIX and w/ YeP-perl
Background Go take it - .tar.gz

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