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PERLCYGWIN(1)	       Perl Programmers Reference Guide 	 PERLCYGWIN(1)



NAME
       README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin

SYNOPSIS
       This document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl on
       Cygwin.	This document also describes features of Cygwin that will
       affect how Perl behaves at runtime.

       NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a ver-
       sion of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install.  If you do not
       need to customize the configuration, consider using one of those pack-
       ages.

PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
       Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)

       The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for
       Win32 platforms.  They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides
       the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect.  More
       information about this project can be found at:

	 http://www.cygwin.com/

       A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.

       At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 1.5.2 was current.

       Cygwin Configuration

       While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup
       so that Perl builds cleanly.  These changes are not required for normal
       Perl usage.

       NOTE: The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions.  They
       do not depend on your host system (Win9x/WinME, WinNT/Win2K) or your
       Cygwin configuration (ntea, ntsec, binary/text mounts).	The only
       dependencies come from hard-coded pathnames like "/usr/local".  How-
       ever, your host system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's run-
       time behavior (see "TEST").

       * "PATH"
	   Set the "PATH" environment variable so that Configure finds the
	   Cygwin versions of programs.  Any Windows directories should be
	   removed or moved to the end of your "PATH".

       * nroff
	   If you do not have nroff (which is part of the groff package), Con-
	   figure will not prompt you to install man pages.

       * Permissions
	   On WinNT with either the ntea or ntsec "CYGWIN" settings, directory
	   and file permissions may not be set correctly.  Since the build
	   process creates directories and files, to be safe you may want to
	   run a "chmod -R +w *" on the entire Perl source tree.

	   Also, it is a well known WinNT "feature" that files created by a
	   login that is a member of the Administrators group will be owned by
	   the Administrators group.  Depending on your umask, you may find
	   that you can not write to files that you just created (because you
	   are no longer the owner).  When using the ntsec "CYGWIN" setting,
	   this is not an issue because it "corrects" the ownership to what
	   you would expect on a UNIX system.

CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
       The default options gathered by Configure with the assistance of
       hints/cygwin.sh will build a Perl that supports dynamic loading (which
       requires a shared libperl.dll).

       This will run Configure and keep a record:

	 ./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure

       If you are willing to accept all the defaults run Configure with -de.
       However, several useful customizations are available.

       Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin

       It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process.
       The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller.  If you want the
       binaries to be stripped, you can either add a -s option when Configure
       prompts you,

	 Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s
	 Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s
	 Any special flags to pass to ld2 to create a dynamically loaded library?
	 [none] -s

       or you can edit hints/cygwin.sh and uncomment the relevant variables
       near the end of the file.

       Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin

       Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence of some
       optional libraries.  Configure will find them if they are installed in
       one of the directories listed as being used for library searches.  Pre-
       built packages for most of these are available from the Cygwin
       installer.

       * "-lcrypt"
	   The crypt package distributed with Cygwin is a Linux compatible
	   56-bit DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.

	   Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to
	   Cygwin.

	   The DES based Ultra Fast Crypt port was done by Alexey Truhan:

	     ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/cw32crypt-dist-0.tgz

	   NOTE: There are various export restrictions on DES implementations,
	   see the glibc README for more details.

	   The MD5 port was done by Andy Piper:

	     ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Okhapkin_Sergey/libcrypt.tgz

       * "-lgdbm" ("use GDBM_File")
	   GDBM is available for Cygwin.

	   NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.

       * "-ldb" ("use DB_File")
	   BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.

	   NOTE: The BerkeleyDB library only completely works on NTFS parti-
	   tions.

       * "-lcygipc" ("use IPC::SysV")
	   A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.

	   NOTE: This has not been extensively tested.	In particular, "d_sem-
	   ctl_semun" is undefined because it fails a Configure test and on
	   Win9x the shm*() functions seem to hang.  It also creates a compile
	   time dependency because perl.h includes > and >
	   (which will be required in the future when compiling CPAN modules).
	   CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!

       * "-lutil"
	   Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the inetutils pack-
	   age which includes libutil.a.

       Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin

       The INSTALL document describes several Configure-time options.  Some of
       these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible.  Also, some
       of these are experimental.  You can either select an option when Con-
       figure prompts you or you can define (undefine) symbols on the command
       line.

       * "-Uusedl"
	   Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled statically.

       * "-Uusemymalloc"
	   By default Perl uses the "malloc()" included with the Perl source.
	   If you want to force Perl to build with the system "malloc()" unde-
	   fine this symbol.

       * "-Uuseperlio"
	   Undefining this symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction.  PerlIO is
	   now the default; it is not recommended to disable PerlIO.

       * "-Dusemultiplicity"
	   Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C program and
	   using more than one interpreter instance.  This works with the Cyg-
	   win port.

       * "-Duse64bitint"
	   By default Perl uses 32 bit integers.  If you want to use larger 64
	   bit integers, define this symbol.

       * "-Duselongdouble"
	   gcc supports long doubles (12 bytes).  However, several additional
	   long double math functions are necessary to use them within Perl
	   ({atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod, frexp, isnan, log, modf, pow, sin,
	   sqrt}l, strtold).  These are not yet available with Cygwin.

       * "-Dusethreads"
	   POSIX threads are implemented in Cygwin, define this symbol if you
	   want a threaded perl.

       * "-Duselargefiles"
	   Cygwin uses 64-bit integers for internal size and position calcula-
	   tions, this will be correctly detected and defined by Configure.

       * "-Dmksymlinks"
	   Use this to build perl outside of the source tree.  This works with
	   Cygwin.  Details can be found in the INSTALL document.  This is the
	   recommended way to build perl from sources.

       Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin

       You may see some messages during Configure that seem suspicious.

       * dlsym()
	   ld2 is needed to build dynamic libraries, but it does not exist
	   when "dlsym()" checking occurs (it is not created until "make"
	   runs).  You will see the following message:

	     Checking whether your C needs a leading underscore ...
	     ld2: not found
	     I can't compile and run the test program.
	     I'm guessing that dlsym doesn't need a leading underscore.

	   Since the guess is correct, this is not a problem.

       * Win9x and "d_eofnblk"
	   Win9x does not correctly report "EOF" with a non-blocking read on a
	   closed pipe.  You will see the following messages:

	     But it also returns -1 to signal EOF, so be careful!
	     WARNING: you can't distinguish between EOF and no data!

	     *** WHOA THERE!!! ***
		 The recommended value for $d_eofnblk on this machine was "define"!
		 Keep the recommended value? [y]

	   At least for consistency with WinNT, you should keep the recom-
	   mended value.

       * Compiler/Preprocessor defines
	   The following error occurs because of the Cygwin "#define" of
	   "_LONG_DOUBLE":

	     Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define...
	     try.c:: missing binary operator

	   This failure does not seem to cause any problems.  With older gcc
	   versions, "parse error" is reported instead of "missing binary
	   operator".

MAKE ON CYGWIN
       Simply run make and wait:

	 make 2>&1 | tee log.make

       Errors on Cygwin

       Errors like these are normal:

	 ...
	 make: [extra.pods] Error 1 (ignored)
	 ...
	 make: [extras.make] Error 1 (ignored)

       ld2 on Cygwin

       During "make", ld2 will be created and installed in your $installbin
       directory (where you said to put public executables).  It does not wait
       until the "make install" process to install the ld2 script, this is
       because the remainder of the "make" refers to ld2 without fully speci-
       fying its path and does this from multiple subdirectories.  The assump-
       tion is that $installbin is in your current "PATH".  If this is not the
       case "make" will fail at some point.  If this happens, just manually
       copy ld2 from the source directory to somewhere in your "PATH".

TEST ON CYGWIN
       There are two steps to running the test suite:

	 make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test

	 cd t;./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness

       The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided
       when running as "./perl harness".

       Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin config-
       uration.  If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup, it is always
       attempted and explainable test failures are documented.	It is possible
       for Perl to pass all the tests, but it is more likely that some tests
       will fail for one of the reasons listed below.

       File Permissions on Cygwin

       UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for
       {read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}.  By default Cygwin
       only tracks the Win32 read-only attribute represented as the UNIX file
       user write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if they
       have a .{com,bat,exe} extension or begin with "#!", directories are
       always readable and executable).  On WinNT with the ntea "CYGWIN" set-
       ting, the additional mode bits are stored as extended file attributes.
       On WinNT with the ntsec "CYGWIN" setting, permissions use the standard
       WinNT security descriptors and access control lists.  Without one of
       these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet):

	 Failed Test	       List of failed
	 ------------------------------------
	 io/fs.t	       5, 7, 9-10
	 lib/anydbm.t	       2
	 lib/db-btree.t        20
	 lib/db-hash.t	       16
	 lib/db-recno.t        18
	 lib/gdbm.t	       2
	 lib/ndbm.t	       2
	 lib/odbm.t	       2
	 lib/sdbm.t	       2
	 op/stat.t	       9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)

       NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems

       Do not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem.  They can be built
       on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:

	../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t       13  3328	  71   59  83.10%  1-2 4 16-71
	../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t      255 65280	  ??   ??	%  ??
	../lib/AnyDBM_File.t	       2   512	  12	2  16.67%  1 4
	../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t      0   139	  11	5  45.45%  7-11
	../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t   13  3328	   4	4 100.00%  1-4
	run/fresh_perl.t			  97	1   1.03%  91

       If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT), run
       Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent NDBM_File
       and ODBM_File being built.

       With NTFS (and CYGWIN=ntsec), there should be no problems even if perl
       was built on FAT.

       "fork()" failures in io_* tests

       A "fork()" failure may result in the following tests failing:

	 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
	 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t
	 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t

       See comment on fork in Miscellaneous below.

Specific features of the Cygwin port
       Script Portability on Cygwin

       Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top
       of Win32 systems.  However, in addition to the items noted above, there
       are some differences that you should know about.  This is a very brief
       guide to portability, more information can be found in the Cygwin docu-
       mentation.

       * Pathnames
	   Cygwin pathnames can be separated by forward (/) or backward (\\)
	   slashes.  They may also begin with drive letters (C:) or Universal
	   Naming Codes (//UNC).  DOS device names (aux, con, prn, com*, lpt?,
	   nul) are invalid as base filenames.	However, they can be used in
	   extensions (e.g., hello.aux).  Names may contain all printable
	   characters except these:

	     : * ? " < > |

	   File names are case insensitive, but case preserving.  A pathname
	   that contains a backslash or drive letter is a Win32 pathname (and
	   not subject to the translations applied to POSIX style pathnames).

       * Text/Binary
	   When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode.  In text
	   mode a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations.  With Cygwin,
	   the default mode for an "open()" is determined by the mode of the
	   mount that underlies the file.  Perl provides a "binmode()" func-
	   tion to set binary mode on files that otherwise would be treated as
	   text.  "sysopen()" with the "O_TEXT" flag sets text mode on files
	   that otherwise would be treated as binary:

	       sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)

	   "lseek()", "tell()" and "sysseek()" only work with files opened in
	   binary mode.

	   The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin documenta-
	   tion.

       * PerlIO
	   PerlIO overrides the default Cygwin Text/Binary behaviour.  A file
	   will always treated as binary, regardless which mode of the mount
	   it lives on, just like it is in UNIX.  So CR/LF translation needs
	   to be requested in either the "open()" call like this:

	     open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");

	   which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output, or in the
	   environment settings (add this to your .bashrc):

	     export PERLIO=crlf

	   which will pull in the crlf PerlIO layer which does LF -> CRLF con-
	   version on every output generated by perl.

       * .exe
	   The Cygwin "stat()", "lstat()" and "readlink()" functions make the
	   .exe extension transparent by looking for foo.exe when you ask for
	   foo (unless a foo also exists).  Cygwin does not require a .exe
	   extension, but gcc adds it automatically when building a program.
	   However, when accessing an executable as a normal file (e.g., cp in
	   a makefile) the .exe is not transparent.  The install included with
	   Cygwin automatically appends a .exe when necessary.

       * cygwin vs. windows process ids
	   Cygwin processes have their own pid, which is different from the
	   underlying windows pid.  Most posix compliant Proc functions expect
	   the cygwin pid, but several Win32::Process functions expect the
	   winpid. E.g. $$ is the cygwin pid of /usr/bin/perl, which is not
	   the winpid.	Use "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()" and "Cygwin::win-
	   pid_to_pid()" to translate between them.

       * "chown()"
	   On WinNT "chown()" can change a file's user and group IDs.  On
	   Win9x "chown()" is a no-op, although this is appropriate since
	   there is no security model.

       * Miscellaneous
	   File locking using the "F_GETLK" command to "fcntl()" is a stub
	   that returns "ENOSYS".

	   Win9x can not "rename()" an open file (although WinNT can).

	   The Cygwin "chroot()" implementation has holes (it can not restrict
	   file access by native Win32 programs).

	   Inplace editing "perl -i" of files doesn't work without doing a
	   backup of the file being edited "perl -i.bak" because of windowish
	   restrictions, therefore Perl adds the suffix ".bak" automatically
	   if you use "perl -i" without specifying a backup extension.

	   Using "fork()" after loading multiple dlls may fail with an inter-
	   nal cygwin error like the following:

	     C:\CYGWIN\BIN\PERL.EXE: *** couldn't allocate memory 0x10000(4128768) for 'C:\CYGWIN\LIB\PERL5\5.6.1\CYGWIN-MULTI\AUTO\SOCKET\SOCKET.DLL' alignment, Win32 error 8

	       200 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: child -395691(0xB8) died before initialization with status code 0x1
	      1370 [main] perl 377147 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls

	   Use the rebase utility to resolve the conflicting dll addresses.
	   The rebase package is included in the Cygwin netrelease.  Use set-
	   up.exe from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe to install it and run
	   rebaseall.

       Prebuilt methods:


       "Cwd::cwd"
	   Returns current working directory.

       "Cygwin::pid_to_winpid"
	   Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may
	   or may not be the same).

       "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"
	   Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).

INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
       This will install Perl, including man pages.

	 make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install

       NOTE: If "STDERR" is redirected "make install" will not prompt you to
       install perl into /usr/bin.

       You may need to be Administrator to run "make install".	If you are
       not, you must have write access to the directories in question.

       Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be
       found in the INSTALL document.

MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
       These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to Cyg-
       win.  These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all con-
       ditional code.  Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the Cyg-
       win port to be kept as clean as possible (listing not updated yet).

       Documentation
	     INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST
	     Changes Changes5.005 Changes5.004 Changes5.6
	     pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
	     pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod
	     pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod perl/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod

       Build, Configure, Make, Install
	     cygwin/Makefile.SHs
	     cygwin/ld2.in
	     cygwin/perlld.in
	     ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl
	     ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
	     ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
	     hints/cygwin.sh
	     Configure		   - help finding hints from uname,
				     shared libperl required for dynamic loading
	     Makefile.SH	   - linklibperl
	     Porting/patchls	   - cygwin in port list
	     installman 	   - man pages with :: translated to .
	     installperl	   - install dll/ld2/perlld, install to pods
	     makedepend.SH	   - uwinfix

       Tests
	     t/io/tell.t	   - binmode
	     t/lib/b.t		   - ignore Cwd from os_extras
	     t/lib/glob-basic.t    - Win32 directory list access differs from read mode
	     t/op/magic.t	   - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe//
	     t/op/stat.t	   - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk
				     (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of file
				     previously created and deleted), no -u (setuid)
	     t/lib/cygwin.t	   - builtin cygwin function tests

       Compiled Perl Source
	     EXTERN.h		   - __declspec(dllimport)
	     XSUB.h		   - __declspec(dllexport)
	     cygwin/cygwin.c	   - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, Cygwin::winpid_to_pid,
				     Cygwin::pid_to_winpid)
	     perl.c		   - os_extras
	     perl.h		   - binmode
	     doio.c		   - win9x can not rename a file when it is open
	     pp_sys.c		   - do not define h_errno, pp_system with spawn
	     util.c		   - use setenv

       Compiled Module Source
	     ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs    - tzname defined externally
	     ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c
				   - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from EXTERN.h
	     ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
				   - binary open

       Perl Modules/Scripts
	     lib/Cwd.pm 	   - hook to internal Cwd::cwd
	     lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
				   - require MM_Cygwin.pm
	     lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
				   - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
	     lib/File/Find.pm	   - on remote drives stat() always sets st_nlink to 1
	     lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc
	     lib/File/Temp.pm	   - no directory sticky bit
	     lib/perl5db.pl	   - use stdin not /dev/tty
	     utils/perldoc.PL	   - version comment

BUGS ON CYGWIN
       Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs is incom-
       plete.  On WinNT Cygwin provides "setuid()", "seteuid()", "setgid()"
       and "setegid()".  However, additional Cygwin calls for manipulating
       WinNT access tokens and security contexts are required.

AUTHORS
       Charles Wilson , Eric Fifer
       , alexander smishlajev , Steven
       Morlock , Sebastien Barre
       , Teun Burgers , Gerrit P.
       Haase .

HISTORY
       Last updated: 2005-02-11



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