On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 09:24:38PM -0700, tedthetool wrote: > >So I'm trying to run the config file for a program in Cygwin, but it says I >need Perl 5 before I can proceed. > >I've searched through cygwin packages, I don't see a Perl package, only >ancillary packages. I type "perl -v" in cygwin and perl is not recognized.
You didn't search very hard. Perl is available as a package. You just need to install it. Use the search box in setup.exe to find it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple