This document is obsolete. Refer to README.cygwin32. perl5.005_03-static-patch implements all of the suggestions below. Results in a static build, 93.85% successful test on NT. ********************************** Subject: Re: Compiling Perl under b20.1 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 16:41:52 +0100 From: Sebastien Barre To: Allan Peda CC: Cygwin Mailing List At 22:04 04/03/99 -0500, Allan Peda wrote: >Has there been much success with this? I've done it with MSVC + nmake, >but I'd get more of a thrill using cygwin. I did (5.005_002 static build, 91.4% successfull test). As many people from this list helped me, I'd glad to offer the same. Basically, *) Read the README.cywin32 *) Edit the hints/cygwin32.sh file to reflect your paths. Here are also a couple of settings I found useful when performing automatic build (copy hints/cygwin32.sh to config.sh, and do sh Configure -d) usedl='n' i_stdarg='define' i_varargs='undef' osname='cygwin_nt-4.0' osvers='20.1' archname='cygwin32' signal_t='int' d_voidsig='define' i_sysselct='undef' signal_t='void' *) Browse Usenet archives (DejaNews), and find "HOWTO: Builiding Perl under Win95/98 using Cygwin32 " Steven Morlock 1998/12/21 comp.lang.perl.misc *) Then apply this patch (Thanks to Todd Goodman) This is my change in Cwd.pm: --- cwd.pm Fri Feb 26 21:52:42 1999 +++ cwd.pm.orig Fri Jan 22 20:49:54 1999 @@ -208,8 +208,6 @@ my $start = @_ ? shift : '.'; my($dotdots, $cwd, @pst, @cst, $dir, @tst); - return cwd() if ( $^O =~ /cygwin/ ); - unless (@cst = stat( $start )) { And tell me (email) if it fails. ______________________________________________________________ Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com