On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:12:27PM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote: > Description > ===================================== > > The libwin32 Perl library that provides access to the Win32 API, and is > installed by default with ActivePerl, is now available as a Cygwin package. > > The CORE Win32 methods in ActivePerl such as Win32::GetLastError() (see man > Win32 or perldoc Win32) are also available as an extension. > > Also included is version 0.0.670 of the actively developed Win32::GUI library, > providing access the Win32 graphical APIs. > > A lot of this functionality is already available through the /proc interface > and various utilities bundled with Cygwin, but this allows greater > compatibility with CPAN modules and various scripts written for ActivePerl on
exceedingly cool... Just curious, but are the code patches to do this merged into the standard distributions (ie: the standard libwin32 api (which I think is with perl itself)? And does this work in mingw mode (ie: with -mno-cygwin)? Thanks much, Ed (ps - also, do you know the difference perchance between Win32::GUI and Win32::GUITest? Can you do mouse events, supply keys to applications, etc? ( pps - as for the other Win32:: modules, do you know their status (Win32::AdminMisc, etc)? I'd very much like to be able to do pretty much everything I can do with ActiveState under cygwin (and possibly mingw) perl, and that means setting up services, setting environment variables, testing GUIs via sending keystrokes and mouse-events, modifying registry varbs, etc. libwin32 does some of this stuff, but not all... anyways, thanks again - even if this other stuff isn't implemented, the libwin32_api is a start.. ) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
