How to get older version of cygwin (need to install perl 5.8 - not 5.10)

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Mon Mar 22 05:33:00 GMT 2010


2010/3/18 jvsrvcs:
> I inherited some code at work that is dependent on a number of .pm that will
> only run with perl 5.8.  I can not upgrade the pm's so must use perl 5.8.
>
> I have cygwin installed but it will only let me install perl 5.10.1.  I want
> to roll back to perl 5.8.  I tried ActiveState perl but it will not
> recognize unix like paths and all the scripts would need to be changed.
>
> If anyone out there has a built version / binary of perl 5.8 that will run
> under cygwin, please zip up and forward (.exe and all dll's) that I would
> need.

http://rurban.xarch.at/sw/cygwin/release/perl/
cygwin-1.5 and gcc3 only
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