=head1 NAME
-README.cygwin32 - notes about porting Perl to Cygwin32
+README.cygwin - notes about porting Perl to Cygwin
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=over
-=item Cygwin32
+=item Cygwin
The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for
Windows NT, 95, and 98. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which
=item libperl.dll
-These instructions and the default cygwin32 hints build a shared
+These instructions and the default cygwin hints build a shared
libperl.dll Perl library and enables dynamically loaded extensions.
=back
=head2 Configure
-Check hints/cygwin32.sh for any system specific settings. In
+Check hints/cygwin.sh for any system specific settings. In
particular change libpth to point to the correct location of
...../i586-cygwin32/lib.
=end text
-select "cygwin32".
+select "cygwin".
Do not use the malloc that comes with perl--using the perl malloc
collides with some cygwin startup routines.