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This document also describes features of Cygwin that will affect how Perl behaves at runtime.</p> <p><b>NOTE:</b> There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install. If you do not need to customize the configuration, consider using one of those packages.</p> <h1 id="PREREQUISITES-FOR-COMPILING-PERL-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#PREREQUISITES-FOR-COMPILING-PERL-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="PREREQUISITES"></a>PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN</h1> <h2 id="Cygwin-=-GNU+Cygnus+Windows-(Don't-leave-UNIX-without-it)"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin-=-GNU+Cygnus+Windows-(Don't-leave-UNIX-without-it)">#</a><a id="Cygwin"></a><a id="Cygwin-GNU-Cygnus-Windows-Dont-leave-UNIX-without-it"></a>Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)</h2> <p>The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Win32 platforms. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect. More information about this project can be found at:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">F<http://www.cygwin.com/></code></pre> <p>A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.</p> <p>At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.5.24 was current.</p> <h2 id="Cygwin-Configuration"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin-Configuration">#</a><a id="Cygwin1"></a>Cygwin Configuration</h2> <p>While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup so that Perl builds cleanly. These changes are <b>not</b> required for normal Perl usage.</p> <p><b>NOTE:</b> The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions. They do not depend on your host system (Win9x/WinME, WinNT/Win2K) or your Cygwin configuration (<i>ntea</i>, <i>ntsec</i>, binary/text mounts). The only dependencies come from hard-coded pathnames like <code>/usr/local</code>. However, your host system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's runtime behavior (see <a href="#TEST">"TEST"</a>).</p> <ul> <li><p><code>PATH</code></p> <p>Set the <code>PATH</code> environment variable so that Configure finds the Cygwin versions of programs. Any Windows directories should be removed or moved to the end of your <code>PATH</code>.</p> </li> <li><p><i>nroff</i></p> <p>If you do not have <i>nroff</i> (which is part of the <i>groff</i> package), Configure will <b>not</b> prompt you to install <i>man</i> pages.</p> </li> <li><p>Permissions</p> <p>On WinNT with either the <i>ntea</i> or <i>ntsec</i> <code>CYGWIN</code> settings, directory and file permissions may not be set correctly. Since the build process creates directories and files, to be safe you may want to run a <code>chmod -R +w *</code> on the entire Perl source tree.</p> <p>Also, it is a well known WinNT "feature" that files created by a login that is a member of the <i>Administrators</i> group will be owned by the <i>Administrators</i> group. Depending on your umask, you may find that you can not write to files that you just created (because you are no longer the owner). When using the <i>ntsec</i> <code>CYGWIN</code> setting, this is not an issue because it "corrects" the ownership to what you would expect on a UNIX system.</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="CONFIGURE-PERL-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#CONFIGURE-PERL-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="CONFIGURE"></a>CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>The default options gathered by Configure with the assistance of <i>hints/cygwin.sh</i> will build a Perl that supports dynamic loading (which requires a shared <i>libperl.dll</i>).</p> <p>This will run Configure and keep a record:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure</code></pre> <p>If you are willing to accept all the defaults run Configure with <b>-de</b>. However, several useful customizations are available.</p> <h2 id="Stripping-Perl-Binaries-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#Stripping-Perl-Binaries-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="Stripping"></a>Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin</h2> <p>It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process. The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller. If you want the binaries to be stripped, you can either add a <b>-s</b> option when Configure prompts you,</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s Any special flags to pass to g++ to create a dynamically loaded library? [none] -s Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s</code></pre> <p>or you can edit <i>hints/cygwin.sh</i> and uncomment the relevant variables near the end of the file.</p> <h2 id="Optional-Libraries-for-Perl-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#Optional-Libraries-for-Perl-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="Optional"></a>Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin</h2> <p>Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence of some optional libraries. Configure will find them if they are installed in one of the directories listed as being used for library searches. Pre-built packages for most of these are available from the Cygwin installer.</p> <ul> <li><p><code>-lcrypt</code></p> <p>The crypt package distributed with Cygwin is a Linux compatible 56-bit DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.</p> <p>Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to Cygwin.</p> <p>The DES based Ultra Fast Crypt port was done by Alexey Truhan:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/cw32crypt-dist-0.tgz</code></pre> <p>NOTE: There are various export restrictions on DES implementations, see the glibc README for more details.</p> <p>The MD5 port was done by Andy Piper:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/libcrypt.tgz</code></pre> </li> <li><p><code>-lgdbm_compat</code> (<code>use GDBM_File</code>)</p> <p>GDBM is available for Cygwin.</p> <p>NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-ldb</code> (<code>use DB_File</code>)</p> <p>BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.</p> <p>NOTE: The BerkeleyDB library only completely works on NTFS partitions and db-4.3 is flawed.</p> </li> <li><p><code>cygserver</code> (<code>use IPC::SysV</code>)</p> <p>A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.</p> <p>NOTE: This has <b>not</b> been extensively tested. In particular, <code>d_semctl_semun</code> is undefined because it fails a Configure test and on Win9x the <i>shm*()</i> functions seem to hang. It also creates a compile time dependency because <i>perl.h</i> includes <i><sys/ipc.h</i>> and <i><sys/sem.h</i>> (which will be required in the future when compiling CPAN modules). CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!</p> </li> <li><p><code>-lutil</code></p> <p>Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the inetutils package which includes libutil.a.</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="Configure-time-Options-for-Perl-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#Configure-time-Options-for-Perl-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="Configure"></a>Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin</h2> <p>The <i>INSTALL</i> document describes several Configure-time options. Some of these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible. Also, some of these are experimental. You can either select an option when Configure prompts you or you can define (undefine) symbols on the command line.</p> <ul> <li><p><code>-Uusedl</code></p> <p>Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled statically.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Uusemymalloc</code></p> <p>By default Perl uses the <code>malloc()</code> included with the Perl source. If you want to force Perl to build with the system <code>malloc()</code> undefine this symbol.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Uuseperlio</code></p> <p>Undefining this symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction. PerlIO is now the default; it is not recommended to disable PerlIO.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Dusemultiplicity</code></p> <p>Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C program and using more than one interpreter instance. This works with the Cygwin port.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Duse64bitint</code></p> <p>By default Perl uses 32 bit integers. If you want to use larger 64 bit integers, define this symbol.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Duselongdouble</code></p> <p><i>gcc</i> supports long doubles (12 bytes). However, several additional long double math functions are necessary to use them within Perl (<i>{atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod, frexp, isnan, log, modf, pow, sin, sqrt}l, strtold</i>). These are <b>not</b> yet available with Cygwin.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Dusethreads</code></p> <p>POSIX threads are implemented in Cygwin, define this symbol if you want a threaded perl.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Duselargefiles</code></p> <p>Cygwin uses 64-bit integers for internal size and position calculations, this will be correctly detected and defined by Configure.</p> </li> <li><p><code>-Dmksymlinks</code></p> <p>Use this to build perl outside of the source tree. This works with Cygwin. Details can be found in the <i>INSTALL</i> document. This is the recommended way to build perl from sources.</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="Suspicious-Warnings-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#Suspicious-Warnings-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="Suspicious"></a>Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin</h2> <p>You may see some messages during Configure that seem suspicious.</p> <ul> <li><p>Win9x and <code>d_eofnblk</code></p> <p>Win9x does not correctly report <code>EOF</code> with a non-blocking read on a closed pipe. You will see the following messages:</p> <pre><code>But it also returns -1 to signal EOF, so be careful! WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data! *** WHOA THERE!!! *** The recommended value for $d_eofnblk on this machine was "define"! Keep the recommended value? [y]</code></pre> <p>At least for consistency with WinNT, you should keep the recommended value.</p> </li> <li><p>Compiler/Preprocessor defines</p> <p>The following error occurs because of the Cygwin <code>#define</code> of <code>_LONG_DOUBLE</code>:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define... try.c:<line#>: missing binary operator</code></pre> <p>This failure does not seem to cause any problems. With older gcc versions, "parse error" is reported instead of "missing binary operator".</p> </li> </ul> <h1 id="MAKE-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#MAKE-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="MAKE"></a>MAKE ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>Simply run <i>make</i> and wait:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">make 2>&1 | tee log.make</code></pre> <h1 id="TEST-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#TEST-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="TEST"></a>TEST ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>There are two steps to running the test suite:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test cd t; ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness</code></pre> <p>The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided when running as <code>./perl harness</code>.</p> <p>Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin configuration. If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup, it is always attempted and explainable test failures are documented. It is possible for Perl to pass all the tests, but it is more likely that some tests will fail for one of the reasons listed below.</p> <h2 id="File-Permissions-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#File-Permissions-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="File"></a>File Permissions on Cygwin</h2> <p>UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for {read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}. By default Cygwin only tracks the Win32 read-only attribute represented as the UNIX file user write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if they have a <i>.{com,bat,exe}</i> extension or begin with <code>#!</code>, directories are always readable and executable). On WinNT with the <i>ntea</i> <code>CYGWIN</code> setting, the additional mode bits are stored as extended file attributes. On WinNT with the default <i>ntsec</i> <code>CYGWIN</code> setting, permissions use the standard WinNT security descriptors and access control lists. Without one of these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet):</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">Failed Test List of failed ------------------------------------ io/fs.t 5, 7, 9-10 lib/anydbm.t 2 lib/db-btree.t 20 lib/db-hash.t 16 lib/db-recno.t 18 lib/gdbm.t 2 lib/ndbm.t 2 lib/odbm.t 2 lib/sdbm.t 2 op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)</code></pre> <h2 id="NDBM_File-and-ODBM_File-do-not-work-on-FAT-filesystems"><a class="permalink" href="#NDBM_File-and-ODBM_File-do-not-work-on-FAT-filesystems">#</a><a id="NDBM_File"></a>NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems</h2> <p>Do not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem. They can be built on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t 13 3328 71 59 83.10% 1-2 4 16-71 ../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ?? ../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 2 512 12 2 16.67% 1 4 ../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t 0 139 11 5 45.45% 7-11 ../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t 13 3328 4 4 100.00% 1-4 run/fresh_perl.t 97 1 1.03% 91</code></pre> <p>If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT), run Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent NDBM_File and ODBM_File being built.</p> <p>With NTFS (and no CYGWIN=nontsec), there should be no problems even if perl was built on FAT.</p> <h2 id="fork()-failures-in-io_*-tests"><a class="permalink" href="#fork()-failures-in-io_*-tests">#</a><a id="fork"></a><a id="fork-failures-in-io_-tests"></a><code>fork()</code> failures in io_* tests</h2> <p>A <code>fork()</code> failure may result in the following tests failing:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t</code></pre> <p>See comment on fork in <a href="/5.12.2/Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a> below.</p> <h1 id="Specific-features-of-the-Cygwin-port"><a class="permalink" href="#Specific-features-of-the-Cygwin-port">#</a><a id="Specific"></a>Specific features of the Cygwin port</h1> <h2 id="Script-Portability-on-Cygwin"><a class="permalink" href="#Script-Portability-on-Cygwin">#</a><a id="Script"></a>Script Portability on Cygwin</h2> <p>Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top of Win32 systems. However, in addition to the items noted above, there are some differences that you should know about. This is a very brief guide to portability, more information can be found in the Cygwin documentation.</p> <ul> <li><p>Pathnames</p> <p>Cygwin pathnames can be separated by forward (<i>/</i>) or backward (<i>\\</i>) slashes. They may also begin with drive letters (<i>C:</i>) or Universal Naming Codes (<i>//UNC</i>). DOS device names (<i>aux</i>, <i>con</i>, <i>prn</i>, <i>com*</i>, <i>lpt?</i>, <i>nul</i>) are invalid as base filenames. However, they can be used in extensions (e.g., <i>hello.aux</i>). Names may contain all printable characters except these:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">: * ? " < > |</code></pre> <p>File names are case insensitive, but case preserving. A pathname that contains a backslash or drive letter is a Win32 pathname (and not subject to the translations applied to POSIX style pathnames).</p> <p>For conversion we have <code>Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()</code> and <code>Cygwin::posix_to_win_path()</code>.</p> <p>Pathnames may not contain Unicode characters. <code>Cygwin</code> still uses the ANSI API calls and no Unicode calls because of newlib deficiencies. There's an unofficial unicode patch for cygwin at <i>http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/</i></p> </li> <li><p>Text/Binary</p> <p>When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode. In text mode a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations. With Cygwin, the default mode for an <code>open()</code> is determined by the mode of the mount that underlies the file. See <code>Cygwin::is_binmount()</code>. Perl provides a <code>binmode()</code> function to set binary mode on files that otherwise would be treated as text. <code>sysopen()</code> with the <code>O_TEXT</code> flag sets text mode on files that otherwise would be treated as binary:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)</code></pre> <p><code>lseek()</code>, <code>tell()</code> and <code>sysseek()</code> only work with files opened in binary mode.</p> <p>The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin documentation.</p> </li> <li><p>PerlIO</p> <p>PerlIO overrides the default Cygwin Text/Binary behaviour. A file will always be treated as binary, regardless of the mode of the mount it lives on, just like it is in UNIX. So CR/LF translation needs to be requested in either the <code>open()</code> call like this:</p> <pre><code>open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");</code></pre> <p>which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output, or in the environment settings (add this to your .bashrc):</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">export PERLIO=crlf</code></pre> <p>which will pull in the crlf PerlIO layer which does LF -> CRLF conversion on every output generated by perl.</p> </li> <li><p><i>.exe</i></p> <p>The Cygwin <code>stat()</code>, <code>lstat()</code> and <code>readlink()</code> functions make the <i>.exe</i> extension transparent by looking for <i>foo.exe</i> when you ask for <i>foo</i> (unless a <i>foo</i> also exists). Cygwin does not require a <i>.exe</i> extension, but <i>gcc</i> adds it automatically when building a program. However, when accessing an executable as a normal file (e.g., <i>cp</i> in a makefile) the <i>.exe</i> is not transparent. The <i>install</i> included with Cygwin automatically appends a <i>.exe</i> when necessary.</p> </li> <li><p>Cygwin vs. Windows process ids</p> <p>Cygwin processes have their own pid, which is different from the underlying windows pid. Most posix compliant Proc functions expect the cygwin pid, but several Win32::Process functions expect the winpid. E.g. <code>$$</code> is the cygwin pid of <i>/usr/bin/perl</i>, which is not the winpid. Use <code>Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()</code> and <code>Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()</code> to translate between them.</p> </li> <li><p>Cygwin vs. Windows errors</p> <p>Under Cygwin, $^E is the same as $!. When using <a href="/5.12.2/Win32">Win32 API Functions</a>, use <code>Win32::GetLastError()</code> to get the last Windows error.</p> </li> <li><p><code>chown()</code></p> <p>On WinNT <code>chown()</code> can change a file's user and group IDs. On Win9x <code>chown()</code> is a no-op, although this is appropriate since there is no security model.</p> </li> <li><p>Miscellaneous</p> <p>File locking using the <code>F_GETLK</code> command to <code>fcntl()</code> is a stub that returns <code>ENOSYS</code>.</p> <p>Win9x can not <code>rename()</code> an open file (although WinNT can).</p> <p>The Cygwin <code>chroot()</code> implementation has holes (it can not restrict file access by native Win32 programs).</p> <p>Inplace editing <code>perl -i</code> of files doesn't work without doing a backup of the file being edited <code>perl -i.bak</code> because of windowish restrictions, therefore Perl adds the suffix <code>.bak</code> automatically if you use <code>perl -i</code> without specifying a backup extension.</p> <p>Using <code>fork()</code> after loading multiple dlls may fail with an internal cygwin error like the following:</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">C:\CYGWIN\BIN\PERL.EXE: *** couldn't allocate memory 0x10000(4128768) for 'C:\CYGWIN\LIB\PERL5\5.6.1\CYGWIN-MULTI\AUTO\SOCKET\SOCKET.DLL' alignment, Win32 error 8 200 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: child -395691(0xB8) died before initialization with status code 0x1 1370 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls</code></pre> <p>Use the rebase utility to resolve the conflicting dll addresses. The rebase package is included in the Cygwin netrelease. Use setup.exe from <i>http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe</i> to install it and run rebaseall.</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="Prebuilt-methods:"><a class="permalink" href="#Prebuilt-methods:">#</a><a id="Prebuilt"></a><a id="Prebuilt-methods"></a>Prebuilt methods:</h2> <dl> <dt id="Cwd::cwd"><a class="permalink" href="#Cwd::cwd">#</a><a id="Cwd"></a><code>Cwd::cwd</code></dt> <dd> <p>Returns the current working directory.</p> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::pid_to_winpid"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::pid_to_winpid">#</a><a id="Cygwin2"></a><code>Cygwin::pid_to_winpid</code></dt> <dd> <p>Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may or may not be the same).</p> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::winpid_to_pid">#</a><a id="Cygwin3"></a><code>Cygwin::winpid_to_pid</code></dt> <dd> <p>Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).</p> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::win_to_posix_path"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::win_to_posix_path">#</a><a id="Cygwin4"></a><code>Cygwin::win_to_posix_path</code></dt> <dd> <p>Translates a Windows path to the corresponding cygwin path respecting the current mount points. With a second non-null argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte characters will not be translated.</p> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::posix_to_win_path"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::posix_to_win_path">#</a><a id="Cygwin5"></a><code>Cygwin::posix_to_win_path</code></dt> <dd> <p>Translates a cygwin path to the corresponding cygwin path respecting the current mount points. With a second non-null argument returns an absolute path. Double-byte characters will not be translated.</p> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::mount_table()"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::mount_table()">#</a><a id="Cygwin6"></a><a id="Cygwin::mount_table"></a><code>Cygwin::mount_table()</code></dt> <dd> <p>Returns an array of [mnt_dir, mnt_fsname, mnt_type, mnt_opts].</p> <pre><code>perl -e 'for $i (Cygwin::mount_table) {print join(" ",@$i),"\n";}' /bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode,cygexec /usr/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode /usr/lib c:\cygwin\lib system binmode / c:\cygwin system binmode /cygdrive/c c: system binmode,noumount /cygdrive/d d: system binmode,noumount /cygdrive/e e: system binmode,noumount</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::mount_flags"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::mount_flags">#</a><a id="Cygwin7"></a><code>Cygwin::mount_flags</code></dt> <dd> <p>Returns the mount type and flags for a specified mount point. A comma-separated string of mntent->mnt_type (always "system" or "user"), then the mntent->mnt_opts, where the first is always "binmode" or "textmode".</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">system|user,binmode|textmode,exec,cygexec,cygdrive,mixed, notexec,managed,nosuid,devfs,proc,noumount</code></pre> <p>If the argument is "/cygdrive", then just the volume mount settings, and the cygdrive mount prefix are returned.</p> <p>User mounts override system mounts.</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">$ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/usr/bin"' system,binmode,cygexec $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/cygdrive"' binmode,cygdrive,/cygdrive</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Cygwin::is_binmount"><a class="permalink" href="#Cygwin::is_binmount">#</a><a id="Cygwin8"></a><code>Cygwin::is_binmount</code></dt> <dd> <p>Returns true if the given cygwin path is binary mounted, false if the path is mounted in textmode.</p> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="INSTALL-PERL-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#INSTALL-PERL-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="INSTALL"></a>INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>This will install Perl, including <i>man</i> pages.</p> <pre><code class="plaintext">make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install</code></pre> <p>NOTE: If <code>STDERR</code> is redirected <code>make install</code> will <b>not</b> prompt you to install <i>perl</i> into <i>/usr/bin</i>.</p> <p>You may need to be <i>Administrator</i> to run <code>make install</code>. If you are not, you must have write access to the directories in question.</p> <p>Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be found in the <i>INSTALL</i> document.</p> <h1 id="MANIFEST-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#MANIFEST-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="MANIFEST"></a>MANIFEST ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to Cygwin. These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all conditional code. Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the Cygwin port to be kept as clean as possible.</p> <dl> <dt id="Documentation"><a class="permalink" href="#Documentation">#</a>Documentation</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod pod/perl561delta.pod pod/perl570delta.pod pod/perl572delta.pod pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perl581delta.pod pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod.lst Porting/Glossary pod/perlrepository.pod Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Changes ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/README ext/Compress-Zlib/Changes cpan/Cwd/Changes ext/DB_File/Changes ext/Encode/Changes ext/Sys-Syslog/Changes ext/Time-HiRes/Changes ext/Win32API-File/Changes lib/CGI/Changes lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Changes lib/ExtUtils/Changes lib/ExtUtils/NOTES lib/ExtUtils/PATCHING lib/ExtUtils/README lib/Module/Build/Changes lib/Net/Ping/Changes lib/Test/Harness/Changes lib/Term/ANSIColor/ChangeLog lib/Term/ANSIColor/README README.symbian symbian/TODO</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Build,-Configure,-Make,-Install"><a class="permalink" href="#Build,-Configure,-Make,-Install">#</a><a id="Build"></a><a id="Build-Configure-Make-Install"></a>Build, Configure, Make, Install</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">cygwin/Makefile.SHs ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl hints/cygwin.sh Configure - help finding hints from uname, shared libperl required for dynamic loading Makefile.SH Cross/Makefile-cross-SH - linklibperl Porting/patchls - cygwin in port list installman - man pages with :: translated to . installperl - install dll, install to 'pods' makedepend.SH - uwinfix regen_lib.pl - file permissions NetWare/Makefile plan9/mkfile symbian/sanity.pl symbian/sisify.pl hints/uwin.sh vms/descrip_mms.template win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Tests"><a class="permalink" href="#Tests">#</a>Tests</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">t/io/fs.t - no file mode checks if not ntsec skip rename() check when not check_case:relaxed t/io/tell.t - binmode t/lib/cygwin.t - builtin cygwin function tests t/op/groups.t - basegroup has ID = 0 t/op/magic.t - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe// t/op/stat.t - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of file previously created and deleted), no -u (setuid) t/op/taint.t - can't use empty path under Cygwin Perl t/op/time.t - no tzset()</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Compiled-Perl-Source"><a class="permalink" href="#Compiled-Perl-Source">#</a><a id="Compiled"></a>Compiled Perl Source</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">EXTERN.h - __declspec(dllimport) XSUB.h - __declspec(dllexport) cygwin/cygwin.c - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, and several Cygwin:: functions) perl.c - os_extras, -i.bak perl.h - binmode doio.c - win9x can not rename a file when it is open pp_sys.c - do not define h_errno, init _pwent_struct.pw_comment util.c - use setenv util.h - PERL_FILE_IS_ABSOLUTE macro pp.c - Comment about Posix vs IEEE math under Cygwin perlio.c - CR/LF mode perliol.c - Comment about EXTCONST under Cygwin</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Compiled-Module-Source"><a class="permalink" href="#Compiled-Module-Source">#</a><a id="Compiled1"></a>Compiled Module Source</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL - Can't install via CPAN shell under Cygwin ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src/zutil.h - Cygwin is Unix-like and has vsnprintf ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL - Special handling for Win32 Perl under Cygwin ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - tzname defined externally ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from EXTERN.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c - binary open ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs - Cygwin has syslog.h ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/compile.pl - Convert paths to Windows paths ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.xs - Various timers not available ext/Time-HiRes/Makefile.PL - Find w32api/windows.h ext/Win32/Makefile.PL - Use various libraries under Cygwin ext/Win32/Win32.xs - Child dir and child env under Cygwin ext/Win32API-File/File.xs - _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c - __declspec(dllexport)</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Perl-Modules/Scripts"><a class="permalink" href="#Perl-Modules/Scripts">#</a><a id="Perl"></a><a id="Perl-Modules-Scripts"></a>Perl Modules/Scripts</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm - Comment about stderr/stdout order under Cygwin ext/Digest-SHA/bin/shasum - Use binary mode under Cygwin ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm - Convert paths to Windows paths ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.pm - Comment about various timers not available ext/Win32API-File/File.pm - _open_osfhandle not implemented under Cygwin ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.pm - History of Win32CORE under Cygwin lib/CGI.pm - binmode and path separator lib/CPANPLUS/Dist/MM.pm - Commented out code that fails under Win32/Cygwin lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants/Report.pm - OS classifications lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Constants.pm - Contants for Cygwin lib/CPANPLUS/Internals/Report.pm - Example of Cygwin report lib/CPANPLUS/Module.pm - Abort if running on old Cygwin version lib/Cwd.pm - hook to internal Cwd::cwd lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/cygwin.pm - use gcc for ld, and link to libperl.dll.a lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm - Cygwin is Unix-like lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - Install and rename issues under Cygwin lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm - OS classifications lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm - Example for Cygwin lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm - require MM_Cygwin.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive lib/File/Fetch.pm - Comment about quotes using a Cygwin example lib/File/Find.pm - on remote drives stat() always sets st_nlink to 1 lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm - case_tolerant lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm - References a message on cygwin.com lib/File/Spec.pm - Pulls in lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm lib/File/Temp.pm - no directory sticky bit lib/Module/Build/Compat.pm - Comment references 'make' under Cygwin lib/Module/Build/Platform/cygwin.pm - Use '.' for man page separator lib/Module/Build.pm - Cygwin is Unix-like lib/Module/CoreList.pm - List of all module files and versions lib/Net/Domain.pm - No domainname command under Cygwin lib/Net/Netrc.pm - Bypass using stat() under Cygwin lib/Net/Ping.pm - ECONREFUSED is EAGAIN under Cygwin lib/Pod/Find.pm - Set 'pods' dir lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm - '-c' switch for pod2man lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm - Use 'less' pager, and use .exe extension lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm - Cygwin terminal info lib/perl5db.pl - use stdin not /dev/tty utils/perlbug.PL - Add CYGWIN environment variable to report</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="Perl-Module-Tests"><a class="permalink" href="#Perl-Module-Tests">#</a><a id="Perl1"></a>Perl Module Tests</dt> <dd> <pre><code class="plaintext">ext/Compress-Zlib/t/14gzopen.t cpan/Cwd/t/cwd.t ext/DB_File/t/db-btree.t ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t ext/DB_File/t/db-recno.t ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t ext/GDBM_File/t/gdbm.t ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t ext/POSIX/t/time.t ext/SDBM_File/t/sdbm.t ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t ext/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t ext/Win32/t/Unicode.t ext/Win32API-File/t/file.t ext/Win32CORE/t/win32core.t lib/AnyDBM_File.t lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t lib/CPANPLUS/t/05_CPANPLUS-Internals-Fetch.t lib/CPANPLUS/t/20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command.t lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Cygwin.t lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix.t lib/File/Compare.t lib/File/Copy.t lib/File/Find/t/find.t lib/File/Path.t lib/File/Spec/t/crossplatform.t lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t lib/Module/Build/t/destinations.t lib/Net/hostent.t lib/Net/Ping/t/110_icmp_inst.t lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t lib/Net/t/netrc.t lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcyg.pod lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcygo.txt lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaq.pod lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaqo.txt lib/User/grent.t lib/User/pwent.t</code></pre> </dd> </dl> <h1 id="BUGS-ON-CYGWIN"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS-ON-CYGWIN">#</a><a id="BUGS"></a>BUGS ON CYGWIN</h1> <p>Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs is incomplete. On WinNT Cygwin provides <code>setuid()</code>, <code>seteuid()</code>, <code>setgid()</code> and <code>setegid()</code>. However, additional Cygwin calls for manipulating WinNT access tokens and security contexts are required.</p> <h1 id="AUTHORS"><a class="permalink" href="#AUTHORS">#</a>AUTHORS</h1> <p>Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, Eric Fifer <egf7@columbia.edu>, alexander smishlajev <als@turnhere.com>, Steven Morlock <newspost@morlock.net>, Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr>, Teun Burgers <burgers@ecn.nl>, Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>, Reini Urban <rurban@cpan.org>, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>, Jerry D. Hedden <jdhedden@cpan.org>.</p> <h1 id="HISTORY"><a class="permalink" href="#HISTORY">#</a>HISTORY</h1> <p>Last updated: 2007-09-25</p> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBOOK">DBOOK</a>). 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