On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:42:21PM -0800, linda w wrote: > I thought there had been a fix in the works for this problem -- I > wanted to write a program using cygwin perl to access/modify the Registry. > > When I load the Win32 package from cpan and try building it, I get > a familiar error message "IsWinNT" is undefined, so building and > installing cpan registry access routines isn't possible. > > Is there something else that would break if "IsWinNT" is set to > "true" if the underlying OS is NT based (or IsWin95 for Win9x/Me)? > > I might be able to use ActiveState's Perl, but it doesn't play > so well with CPAN and doesn't seem to handle Cygwin paths very well > either. > > Was there a work-around for this?
Upgrade to perl5.8.6, which addresses the IsWinNT-missing problem. Also, I believe Reini will be releasing a new version of perl-libwin32 real soon now. -- 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/
