hello
i have been using activestate's perl for win32 just fine, except that i cant do
ZModem transfers. so I installed CYGWIN, and built a new perl in that
environment, with the hopes i could use available zmodem routines built for
*nix.
problem is, whereas Win32::SerialPort worked just fine in windows, the
corresponding Device::SerialPort is not working so well in Cygwin. the make
complains that it cant find the following header files:
/usr/include/sys/termiox.h
/usr/include/sys/ttycom.h
/usr/include/sys/modem.h
and warns:
checking the checking serial control via ioctl... no
configure: WARNING: Without ioctl support, most serial control functions are
missing.
well, thats not going to work. and Device::Modem has a dependency on
Device::SerialPort.
ive been all over the net, the boards, hassling the folks at cygwin and the
author of the Devices::SerialPort module (Kees). Cygwin claims that the
headers in quesion have never been in their distribution, and so the problem is
in the application code. SerialPort.pm's author just said "hm, never tried it
on Cygwin".
so... my task, should i accept it, is to port SerialPort.pm over to cygwin, by
resolving the problems with the three missing header files. at least. and
probably then some more.
which would be difficult if i knew what i was doing. But since I Have No Idea,
it should be a breeze, right?
anyone got any suggestions?