1PERLCYGWIN(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLCYGWIN(1)
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6 perlcygwin - Perl for Cygwin
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9 This document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl on
10 Cygwin. This document also describes features of Cygwin that will
11 affect how Perl behaves at runtime.
12 NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a
14 version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install. If you do
15 not need to customize the configuration, consider using one of those
16 packages.
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19 Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
20 The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for
21 Win32 platforms. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides
22 the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect. More
23 information about this project can be found at:
24 <http://www.cygwin.com/>
26 A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.
28 At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.7.10 was current.
30 Cygwin Configuration
32 While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup
33 so that Perl builds cleanly. These changes are not required for normal
34 Perl usage.
35 NOTE: The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions. They
37 do not depend on your host system (WinXP/Win2K/Win7) or your Cygwin
38 configuration (binary/text mounts, cvgserver). The only dependencies
39 come from hard-coded pathnames like "/usr/local". However, your host
40 system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's runtime behavior
41 (see "TEST").
42 · "PATH"
44 Set the "PATH" environment variable so that Configure finds the
46 Cygwin versions of programs. Any not-needed Windows directories
47 should be removed or moved to the end of your "PATH".
48 · nroff
50 If you do not have nroff (which is part of the groff package),
52 Configure will not prompt you to install man pages.
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55 The default options gathered by Configure with the assistance of
56 hints/cygwin.sh will build a Perl that supports dynamic loading (which
57 requires a shared cygperl5_16.dll).
58 This will run Configure and keep a record:
60 ./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure
62 If you are willing to accept all the defaults run Configure with -de.
64 However, several useful customizations are available.
65 Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
67 It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process.
68 The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller. If you want the
69 binaries to be stripped, you can either add a -s option when Configure
70 prompts you,
71 Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s
73 Any special flags to pass to g++ to create a dynamically loaded library?
74 [none] -s
75 Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s
76 or you can edit hints/cygwin.sh and uncomment the relevant variables
78 near the end of the file.
79 Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
81 Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence of some
82 optional libraries. Configure will find them if they are installed in
83 one of the directories listed as being used for library searches. Pre-
84 built packages for most of these are available from the Cygwin
85 installer.
86 · "-lcrypt"
88 The crypt package distributed with Cygwin is a Linux compatible
90 56-bit DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.
91 Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to
93 Cygwin.
94 · "-lgdbm_compat" ("use GDBM_File")
96 GDBM is available for Cygwin.
98 NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.
100 · "-ldb" ("use DB_File")
102 BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.
104 NOTE: The BerkeleyDB library only completely works on NTFS
106 partitions.
107 · "cygserver" ("use IPC::SysV")
109 A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.
111 NOTE: This has not been extensively tested. In particular,
113 "d_semctl_semun" is undefined because it fails a Configure test and
114 on Win9x the shm*() functions seem to hang. It also creates a
115 compile time dependency because perl.h includes <sys/ipc.h> and
116 <sys/sem.h> (which will be required in the future when compiling
117 CPAN modules). CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!
118 · "-lutil"
120 Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the inetutils
122 package which includes libutil.a.
123 Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
125 The INSTALL document describes several Configure-time options. Some of
126 these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible. Also, some
127 of these are experimental. You can either select an option when
128 Configure prompts you or you can define (undefine) symbols on the
129 command line.
130 · "-Uusedl"
132 Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled statically.
134 · "-Dusemymalloc"
136 By default Perl does not use the "malloc()" included with the Perl
138 source, because it was slower and not entirely thread-safe. If you
139 want to force Perl to build with the old -Dusemymalloc define this.
140 · "-Uuseperlio"
142 Undefining this symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction. PerlIO is
144 now the default; it is not recommended to disable PerlIO.
145 · "-Dusemultiplicity"
147 Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C program and
149 using more than one interpreter instance. This is only required
150 when you build a not-threaded perl with "-Uuseithreads".
151 · "-Uuse64bitint"
153 By default Perl uses 64 bit integers. If you want to use smaller
155 32 bit integers, define this symbol.
156 · "-Duselongdouble"
158 gcc supports long doubles (12 bytes). However, several additional
160 long double math functions are necessary to use them within Perl
161 ({atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod, frexp, isnan, log, modf, pow, sin,
162 sqrt}l, strtold). These are not yet available with newlib, the
163 Cygwin libc.
164 · "-Uuseithreads"
166 Define this symbol if you want not-threaded faster perl.
168 · "-Duselargefiles"
170 Cygwin uses 64-bit integers for internal size and position
172 calculations, this will be correctly detected and defined by
173 Configure.
174 · "-Dmksymlinks"
176 Use this to build perl outside of the source tree. Details can be
178 found in the INSTALL document. This is the recommended way to
179 build perl from sources.
180 Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
182 You may see some messages during Configure that seem suspicious.
183 · Win9x and "d_eofnblk"
185 Win9x does not correctly report "EOF" with a non-blocking read on a
187 closed pipe. You will see the following messages:
188 But it also returns -1 to signal EOF, so be careful!
190 WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data!
191 *** WHOA THERE!!! ***
193 The recommended value for $d_eofnblk on this machine was "define"!
194 Keep the recommended value? [y]
195 At least for consistency with WinNT, you should keep the
197 recommended value.
198 · Compiler/Preprocessor defines
200 The following error occurs because of the Cygwin "#define" of
202 "_LONG_DOUBLE":
203 Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define...
205 try.c:<line#>: missing binary operator
206 This failure does not seem to cause any problems. With older gcc
208 versions, "parse error" is reported instead of "missing binary
209 operator".
210
212 Simply run make and wait:
213 make 2>&1 | tee log.make
215
217 There are two steps to running the test suite:
218 make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test
220 cd t; ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness
222 The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided
224 when running as "./perl harness".
225 Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin
227 configuration. If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup, it is always
228 attempted and explainable test failures are documented. It is possible
229 for Perl to pass all the tests, but it is more likely that some tests
230 will fail for one of the reasons listed below.
231 File Permissions on Cygwin
233 UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for
234 {read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}. By default Cygwin
235 only tracks the Win32 read-only attribute represented as the UNIX file
236 user write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if they
237 have a .{com,bat,exe} extension or begin with "#!", directories are
238 always readable and executable). On WinNT with the ntea "CYGWIN"
239 setting, the additional mode bits are stored as extended file
240 attributes. On WinNT with the default ntsec "CYGWIN" setting,
241 permissions use the standard WinNT security descriptors and access
242 control lists. Without one of these options, these tests will fail
243 (listing not updated yet):
244 Failed Test List of failed
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247 io/fs.t 5, 7, 9-10
248 lib/anydbm.t 2
249 lib/db-btree.t 20
250 lib/db-hash.t 16
251 lib/db-recno.t 18
252 lib/gdbm.t 2
253 lib/ndbm.t 2
254 lib/odbm.t 2
255 lib/sdbm.t 2
256 op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)
257 NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
259 Do not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem. They can be built
260 on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:
261 ../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t 13 3328 71 59 83.10% 1-2 4 16-71
263 ../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ??
264 ../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 2 512 12 2 16.67% 1 4
265 ../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t 0 139 11 5 45.45% 7-11
266 ../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t 13 3328 4 4 100.00% 1-4
267 run/fresh_perl.t 97 1 1.03% 91
268 If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT), run
270 Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent NDBM_File
271 and ODBM_File being built.
272 With NTFS (and no CYGWIN=nontsec), there should be no problems even if
274 perl was built on FAT.
275 "fork()" failures in io_* tests
277 A "fork()" failure may result in the following tests failing:
278 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
280 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t
281 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t
282 See comment on fork in "Miscellaneous" below.
284
286 Script Portability on Cygwin
287 Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top
288 of Win32 systems. However, in addition to the items noted above, there
289 are some differences that you should know about. This is a very brief
290 guide to portability, more information can be found in the Cygwin
291 documentation.
292 · Pathnames
294 Cygwin pathnames are separated by forward (/) slashes, Universal
296 Naming Codes (//UNC) are also supported Since cygwin-1.7 non-POSIX
297 pathnames are disencouraged. Names may contain all printable
298 characters.
299 File names are case insensitive, but case preserving. A pathname
301 that contains a backslash or drive letter is a Win32 pathname, and
302 not subject to the translations applied to POSIX style pathnames,
303 but cygwin will warn you, so better convert them to POSIX.
304 For conversion we have "Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()" and
306 "Cygwin::posix_to_win_path()".
307 Since cygwin-1.7 pathnames are UTF-8 encoded.
309 · Text/Binary
311 Since cywgin-1.7 textmounts are deprecated and stronlgy
313 discouraged.
314 When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode. In text
316 mode a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations. With Cygwin,
317 the default mode for an "open()" is determined by the mode of the
318 mount that underlies the file. See "Cygwin::is_binmount"(). Perl
319 provides a "binmode()" function to set binary mode on files that
320 otherwise would be treated as text. "sysopen()" with the "O_TEXT"
321 flag sets text mode on files that otherwise would be treated as
322 binary:
323 sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)
325 "lseek()", "tell()" and "sysseek()" only work with files opened in
327 binary mode.
328 The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin
330 documentation.
331 · PerlIO
333 PerlIO overrides the default Cygwin Text/Binary behaviour. A file
335 will always be treated as binary, regardless of the mode of the
336 mount it lives on, just like it is in UNIX. So CR/LF translation
337 needs to be requested in either the "open()" call like this:
338 open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");
340 which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output, or in the
342 environment settings (add this to your .bashrc):
343 export PERLIO=crlf
345 which will pull in the crlf PerlIO layer which does LF -> CRLF
347 conversion on every output generated by perl.
348 · .exe
350 The Cygwin "stat()", "lstat()" and "readlink()" functions make the
352 .exe extension transparent by looking for foo.exe when you ask for
353 foo (unless a foo also exists). Cygwin does not require a .exe
354 extension, but gcc adds it automatically when building a program.
355 However, when accessing an executable as a normal file (e.g., cp in
356 a makefile) the .exe is not transparent. The install program
357 included with Cygwin automatically appends a .exe when necessary.
358 · Cygwin vs. Windows process ids
360 Cygwin processes have their own pid, which is different from the
362 underlying windows pid. Most posix compliant Proc functions expect
363 the cygwin pid, but several Win32::Process functions expect the
364 winpid. E.g. $$ is the cygwin pid of /usr/bin/perl, which is not
365 the winpid. Use "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()" and
366 "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()" to translate between them.
367 · Cygwin vs. Windows errors
369 Under Cygwin, $^E is the same as $!. When using Win32 API
371 Functions, use "Win32::GetLastError()" to get the last Windows
372 error.
373 · rebase errors on fork or system
375 Using "fork()" or "system()" out to another perl after loading
377 multiple dlls may result on a DLL baseaddress conflict. The
378 internal cygwin error looks like like the following:
379 0 [main] perl 8916 child_info_fork::abort: data segment start: parent
381 (0xC1A000) != child(0xA6A000)
382 or:
384 183 [main] perl 3588 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygsvn_subr-1-0.dll to same address as parent(0x6FB30000) != 0x6FE60000
386 46 [main] perl 3488 fork: child 3588 - died waiting for dll loading, errno11
387 See
389 http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
390 <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-
391 failures> It helps if not too many DLLs are loaded in memory so the
392 available address space is larger, e.g. stopping the MS Internet
393 Explorer might help.
394 Use the perlrebase or rebase utilities to resolve the conflicting
396 dll addresses. The rebase package is included in the Cygwin setup.
397 Use setup.exe from <http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> to install it.
398 1. kill all perl processes and run "perlrebase" or
400 2. kill all cygwin processes and services, start dash from cmd.exe
402 and run "rebaseall".
403 · "chown()"
405 On WinNT "chown()" can change a file's user and group IDs. On
407 Win9x "chown()" is a no-op, although this is appropriate since
408 there is no security model.
409 · Miscellaneous
411 File locking using the "F_GETLK" command to "fcntl()" is a stub
413 that returns "ENOSYS".
414 Win9x can not "rename()" an open file (although WinNT can).
416 The Cygwin "chroot()" implementation has holes (it can not restrict
418 file access by native Win32 programs).
419 Inplace editing "perl -i" of files doesn't work without doing a
421 backup of the file being edited "perl -i.bak" because of windowish
422 restrictions, therefore Perl adds the suffix ".bak" automatically
423 if you use "perl -i" without specifying a backup extension.
424 Prebuilt methods:
426 "Cwd::cwd"
427 Returns the current working directory.
428 "Cygwin::pid_to_winpid"
430 Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may
431 or may not be the same).
432 "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"
434 Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).
435 "Cygwin::win_to_posix_path"
437 Translates a Windows path to the corresponding cygwin path
438 respecting the current mount points. With a second non-null
439 argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte characters will not
440 be translated.
441 "Cygwin::posix_to_win_path"
443 Translates a cygwin path to the corresponding cygwin path
444 respecting the current mount points. With a second non-null
445 argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte characters will not
446 be translated.
447 "Cygwin::mount_table()"
449 Returns an array of [mnt_dir, mnt_fsname, mnt_type, mnt_opts].
450 perl -e 'for $i (Cygwin::mount_table) {print join(" ",@$i),"\n";}'
452 /bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode,cygexec
453 /usr/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode
454 /usr/lib c:\cygwin\lib system binmode
455 / c:\cygwin system binmode
456 /cygdrive/c c: system binmode,noumount
457 /cygdrive/d d: system binmode,noumount
458 /cygdrive/e e: system binmode,noumount
459 "Cygwin::mount_flags"
461 Returns the mount type and flags for a specified mount point. A
462 comma-separated string of mntent->mnt_type (always "system" or
463 "user"), then the mntent->mnt_opts, where the first is always
464 "binmode" or "textmode".
465 system|user,binmode|textmode,exec,cygexec,cygdrive,mixed,
467 notexec,managed,nosuid,devfs,proc,noumount
468 If the argument is "/cygdrive", then just the volume mount
470 settings, and the cygdrive mount prefix are returned.
471 User mounts override system mounts.
473 $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/usr/bin"'
475 system,binmode,cygexec
476 $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/cygdrive"'
477 binmode,cygdrive,/cygdrive
478 "Cygwin::is_binmount"
480 Returns true if the given cygwin path is binary mounted, false if
481 the path is mounted in textmode.
482 "Cygwin::sync_winenv"
484 Cygwin does not initialize all original Win32 environment
485 variables. See the bottom of this page
486 http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html
487 <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html> for "Restricted
488 Win32 environment".
489 Certain Win32 programs called from cygwin programs might need some
491 environment variable, such as e.g. ADODB needs
492 %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%. Call Cygwin::sync_winenv() to copy all Win32
493 environment variables to your process and note that cygwin will
494 warn on every encounter of non-POSIX paths.
495
497 This will install Perl, including man pages.
498 make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install
500 NOTE: If "STDERR" is redirected "make install" will not prompt you to
502 install perl into /usr/bin.
503 You may need to be Administrator to run "make install". If you are
505 not, you must have write access to the directories in question.
506 Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be
508 found in the INSTALL document.
509
511 These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to
512 Cygwin. These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all
513 conditional code. Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the
514 Cygwin port to be kept as clean as possible.
515 Documentation
517 INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST
518 pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
519 pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod
520 pod/perl561delta.pod pod/perl570delta.pod pod/perl572delta.pod
521 pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perl581delta.pod
522 pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
523 pod/perltoc.pod Porting/Glossary pod/perlgit.pod
524 Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
525 dist/Cwd/Changes ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Changes
526 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/README ext/Compress-Zlib/Changes
527 ext/DB_File/Changes ext/Encode/Changes ext/Sys-Syslog/Changes
528 ext/Time-HiRes/Changes ext/Win32API-File/Changes lib/CGI/Changes
529 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Changes lib/ExtUtils/Changes lib/ExtUtils/NOTES
530 lib/ExtUtils/PATCHING lib/ExtUtils/README lib/Module/Build/Changes
531 lib/Net/Ping/Changes lib/Test/Harness/Changes
532 lib/Term/ANSIColor/ChangeLog lib/Term/ANSIColor/README README.symbian
533 symbian/TODO
534 Build, Configure, Make, Install
536 cygwin/Makefile.SHs
537 ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl
538 ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
539 ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
540 hints/cygwin.sh
541 Configure - help finding hints from uname,
542 shared libperl required for dynamic loading
543 Makefile.SH Cross/Makefile-cross-SH
544 - linklibperl
545 Porting/patchls - cygwin in port list
546 installman - man pages with :: translated to .
547 installperl - install dll, install to 'pods'
548 makedepend.SH - uwinfix
549 regen_lib.pl - file permissions
550 NetWare/Makefile
552 plan9/mkfile
553 symbian/sanity.pl symbian/sisify.pl
554 hints/uwin.sh
555 vms/descrip_mms.template
556 win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
557 Tests
559 t/io/fs.t - no file mode checks if not ntsec
560 skip rename() check when not check_case:relaxed
561 t/io/tell.t - binmode
562 t/lib/cygwin.t - builtin cygwin function tests
563 t/op/groups.t - basegroup has ID = 0
564 t/op/magic.t - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe//
565 t/op/stat.t - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk
566 (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of file
567 previously created and deleted), no -u (setuid)
568 t/op/taint.t - can't use empty path under Cygwin Perl
569 t/op/time.t - no tzset()
570 Compiled Perl Source
572 EXTERN.h - __declspec(dllimport)
573 XSUB.h - __declspec(dllexport)
574 cygwin/cygwin.c - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, and several Cygwin:: functions)
575 perl.c - os_extras, -i.bak
576 perl.h - binmode
577 doio.c - win9x can not rename a file when it is open
578 pp_sys.c - do not define h_errno, init _pwent_struct.pw_comment
579 util.c - use setenv
580 util.h - PERL_FILE_IS_ABSOLUTE macro
581 pp.c - Comment about Posix vs IEEE math under Cygwin
582 perlio.c - CR/LF mode
583 perliol.c - Comment about EXTCONST under Cygwin
584 Compiled Module Source
586 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL
587 - Can't install via CPAN shell under Cygwin
588 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src/zutil.h
589 - Cygwin is Unix-like and has vsnprintf
590 ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL - Special handling for Win32 Perl under Cygwin
591 ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - tzname defined externally
592 ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c
593 - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from EXTERN.h
594 ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
595 - binary open
596 ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
597 - Cygwin has syslog.h
598 ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/compile.pl
599 - Convert paths to Windows paths
600 ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.xs
601 - Various timers not available
602 ext/Time-HiRes/Makefile.PL
603 - Find w32api/windows.h
604 ext/Win32/Makefile.PL - Use various libraries under Cygwin
605 ext/Win32/Win32.xs - Child dir and child env under Cygwin
606 ext/Win32API-File/File.xs
607 - _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin
608 ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
609 - __declspec(dllexport)
610 Perl Modules/Scripts
612 ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm - Comment about stderr/stdout order under Cygwin
613 ext/Digest-SHA/bin/shasum
614 - Use binary mode under Cygwin
615 ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm
616 - Convert paths to Windows paths
617 ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.pm
618 - Comment about various timers not available
619 ext/Win32API-File/File.pm
620 - _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin
621 ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.pm
622 - History of Win32CORE under Cygwin
623 lib/CGI.pm - binmode and path separator
624 lib/CPANPLUS/Dist/MM.pm - Commented out code that fails under Win32/Cygwin
625 lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants/Report.pm
626 - OS classifications
627 lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants.pm
628 - Constants for Cygwin
629 lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Report.pm
630 - Example of Cygwin report
631 lib/CPANPLUS/Module.pm
632 - Abort if running on old Cygwin version
633 lib/Cwd.pm - hook to internal Cwd::cwd
634 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/cygwin.pm
635 - use gcc for ld, and link to libperl.dll.a
636 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm
637 - Cygwin is Unix-like
638 lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - Install and rename issues under Cygwin
639 lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm - OS classifications
640 lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm - Example for Cygwin
641 lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
642 - require MM_Cygwin.pm
643 lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
644 - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
645 lib/File/Fetch.pm - Comment about quotes using a Cygwin example
646 lib/File/Find.pm - on remote drives stat() always sets st_nlink to 1
647 lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm - case_tolerant
648 lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc
649 lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm - References a message on cygwin.com
650 lib/File/Spec.pm - Pulls in lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm
651 lib/File/Temp.pm - no directory sticky bit
652 lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm - Comment references 'make' under Cygwin
653 lib/Module/Build/Platform/cygwin.pm
654 - Use '.' for man page separator
655 lib/Module/Build.pm - Cygwin is Unix-like
656 lib/Module/CoreList.pm - List of all module files and versions
657 lib/Net/Domain.pm - No domainname command under Cygwin
658 lib/Net/Netrc.pm - Bypass using stat() under Cygwin
659 lib/Net/Ping.pm - ECONREFUSED is EAGAIN under Cygwin
660 lib/Pod/Find.pm - Set 'pods' dir
661 lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm - '-c' switch for pod2man
662 lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm - Use 'less' pager, and use .exe extension
663 lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm - Cygwin terminal info
664 lib/perl5db.pl - use stdin not /dev/tty
665 utils/perlbug.PL - Add CYGWIN environment variable to report
666 Perl Module Tests
668 dist/Cwd/t/cwd.t
669 ext/Compress-Zlib/t/14gzopen.t
670 ext/DB_File/t/db-btree.t
671 ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t
672 ext/DB_File/t/db-recno.t
673 ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t
674 ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t
675 ext/GDBM_File/t/gdbm.t
676 ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t
677 ext/POSIX/t/time.t
678 ext/SDBM_File/t/sdbm.t
679 ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
680 ext/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t
681 ext/Win32/t/Unicode.t
682 ext/Win32API-File/t/file.t
683 ext/Win32CORE/t/win32core.t
684 lib/AnyDBM_File.t
685 lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t
686 lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t
687 lib/CPANPLUS/t/05_CPANPLUS-Internals-Fetch.t
688 lib/CPANPLUS/t/20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t
689 lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t
690 lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command.t
691 lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Cygwin.t
692 lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix.t
693 lib/File/Compare.t
694 lib/File/Copy.t
695 lib/File/Find/t/find.t
696 lib/File/Path.t
697 lib/File/Spec/t/crossplatform.t
698 lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
699 lib/Module/Build/t/destinations.t
700 lib/Net/hostent.t
701 lib/Net/Ping/t/110_icmp_inst.t
702 lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t
703 lib/Net/t/netrc.t
704 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcyg.pod
705 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcygo.txt
706 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaq.pod
707 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaqo.txt
708 lib/User/grent.t
709 lib/User/pwent.t
710
712 Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs is
713 incomplete. On WinNT Cygwin provides "setuid()", "seteuid()",
714 "setgid()" and "setegid()". However, additional Cygwin calls for
715 manipulating WinNT access tokens and security contexts are required.
716
718 Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, Eric Fifer
719 <egf7@columbia.edu>, alexander smishlajev <als@turnhere.com>, Steven
720 Morlock <newspost@morlock.net>, Sebastien Barre
721 <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr>, Teun Burgers <burgers@ecn.nl>, Gerrit P.
722 Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>, Reini Urban <rurban@cpan.org>, Jan Dubois
723 <jand@activestate.com>, Jerry D. Hedden <jdhedden@cpan.org>.
724
726 Last updated: 2012-02-08
727perl v5.16.3 2013-03-04 PERLCYGWIN(1)