On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 21:42:42 +0000 (UTC) "Kevin Schnitzius via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > vim needs to be recompiled for Perl 5.30. The perl interface is no > > longer working: Calling: > > :perl VIM::Msg(“Hi”) > > > > Results in: > > > > E370: Could not load library cygperl5_26.dll > > Sorry, this command is disabled: the Perl library could not be > > loaded. > > Add: > set perldll=/usr/bin/perl5_30.dll > to your .vimrc file. > Appears that doesn't work on Windows, Cygwin or otherwise, as per if_perl.txt: "The name of the DLL must match the Perl version Vim was compiled with. Currently the name is "perl512.dll". That is for Perl 5.12. To know for sure edit "gvim.exe" and search for "perl\d*.dll\c" Sure enough, the binary still has references to 5.26 baked in. Regards, Oliver -- 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
