Perl 5.8.5 and libwin32 0.191-1 incompatibility

[Michael W. J. West]

I recently followed the advice at

http://fairtomiddlin.blogspot.com/2004/09/cygwin.html
and noting:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-01/msg00011.html

and apparently got libwin32-0.191 patched and handcrafted to build for 
perl 5.8.5 on cygwin, pass many tests, and install. It ran about 250 
tests and then noted that I am not on a Windows network, and stopped 
running tests. That was "good enough for me" (TM).  After install,

perl -w -MWin32::Shortcut -e1
perl -w -MWin32::GUI -e1

had no complaints.

1.  Use "setup"  (Download cygwin now!) to get the "source" and patches. 
  It is under "Interpreters" as perl-libwin32 version 0.191-1.

2.  Go to /usr/src/ and see libwin32-0.191.tar.gz and 
perl-libwin32-0.191-1.patch and .sh .

3.

tar -xzf libwin32-0.191.tar.gz

	and then apply the patch with

patch -p0 < perl-libwin32-0.191-1.patch   (as I recall...)

4. Handcraft:

Regarding GUIDKIND_DEFAULT_SOURCE_DISP_IID , I downloaded the Windows 
Developer SDK and for my Windows 2000 box, and did a search for files
containing that term, and saw it in olectl.h in 
cygwin/usr/include/w32api defined as "1", and also in OCIdl.h (sp?) also 
  defined as "1", so what the hell:

I defined it in OLE/OLE.xs
around line 30 in context as:

#define MY_VERSION "Win32::OLE(" XS_VERSION ")"
#define GUIDKIND_DEFAULT_SOURCE_DISP_IID 1
#define register /* be gone */

Regarding DateTime_SetSystemTime and relatives, I commented out two 
defines in win32perl.h around line 222:

/* #define DateTime_GetSystemtime DateTime_GetSystemTime */
/* #define DateTime_SetSystemtime DateTime_SetSystemTime */

I have also produced a patch file that will apply all the changes 
necessary to the original libwin32-0.191 , but it is almost 7 megs and 
gzips to about 2 megs.  I can email it to interested parties, as well as

perl -V

and

cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out

Hope this helps, but your milage may vary.

Mike


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