Re: How to install perl modules?

[Linda W <cygwin at tlinx dot org>]

FYI -- I discovered the cause of a problem I had in manipulating the
Registry.  There is a bug in the Win32 Registry manipulation routines.
Both TieRegistry and the original Registry interface apparently
use an older interface -- something like (?), libcalls ending with "A"
where new ones end with "W". The "A" interface was for 8-bit characters.
The "W" interface works with the 16-bit characters in the registry.

While it was thought this might have been due to "bogus" registry entries,
according to the MS registry documentation, the only illegal character
in a registry "name" is "\". This causes perl to fail when manipulating
some binary key- & value- names.

I don't know which other routines still use the older 8-bit character
calls, but there may be similar problems if they use the older
interface.  Note that these modules are broken in the ASPN version
of perl as well.



Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> George wrote:
>
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure 
> > > environment variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it 
> > > will fail. (You might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes).
> > > Also be aware that you may have trouble building some modules that 
> > > use C code and have not been ported to Cygwin, mainly OS modules 
> > > like WIN32. Straight Perl modules should just work out of the box, 
> > > and CPAN will get all pre-requisites for you too. You'll never want 
> > > ppm again!
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry to go off on a slight tangent here, but is there any documentation
> > anywhere that describe which Win32 modules are problematic, as it's most
> > likely that for Cygwin users the Win32 modules are of particular
> > interest, no?  And installing both Cygwin's Perl and ActiveState's
> > distribution can offer a less than satisfactory solution as it presents
> > its own set of problems.
>
>
> There is an up to date version of libwin32 as well as Win32CORE included
> in the perl distributed, it *should* be possible to build some (not all)
> of the Win32 modules, though I have not tried to build much of them.
> Just try one or another if it is not already included with libwin32.
>
>
> Gerrit


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