perl-libwin32
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Perl extensions for using the Win32 API.
Included modules: Win32CORE, Win32API::File, Win32API::Net, Win32API::Registry,
ChangeNotify, Clipboard, Console, Event, EventLog, File, FileSecurity, GUI,
IPC, Internet, Job, Mutex, NetAdmin, NetResource, ODBC, OLE, PerfLib, Pipe,
Process, Registry, Semaphore, Service, Shortcut, Sound, TieRegistry and
WinError.

Runtime requirements:
  cygwin
  perl-5.8.2
  w32api

Build requirements:
  cygwin
  cygutils
  perl-5.8.2
  w32api
  gzip

Project Homepages:
  http://search.cpan.org/search?query=libwin32&mode=Distributions
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-win32-gui/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwin32-exp/

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Build instructions:
  unpack perl-libwin32-0.191-1-src.tar.bz2
    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
	 unpacked under /usr/src automatically
  cd /usr/src
  ./perl-libwin32-0.191-1.sh all

This will create:
  /usr/src/perl-libwin32-0.191-1.tar.bz2
  /usr/src/perl-libwin32-0.191-1-src.tar.bz2

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Port Notes:

To Cygwin Developers:

If something breaks and I'm not around for any reason, please feel free to
either fix it and do a Non Maintainer Upload (I won't mind, honestly) or drop
it from the distribution.

Port TODO:

* Alot of stuff needs to be fed back upstream, will add details later to this
  file or the sourceforge project, including some references to previous
  discussions on p5p.
* Win32::GUI needs to be separated out into its own original source and patch,
  even though multi source -> one binary packaging is nasty and evil.
* Need to make a cleaner package script and/or add some support to
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build for Cygwin packages. At the very least
  need to make a template package script for making other Perl modules, as the
  sample setup script requires a good deal of modification.
* Some of the hints stuff might be nicer reworked using something like:
  http://search.cpan.org/~jstowe/TermReadKey-2.21/Configure.pm
* Win32CORE should be either statically built into or autoloaded from Cygwin
  Perl to be compatible with native builds. Will wait until I can figure out if
  a patch to the Perl core would be feasible and accepted.
* Put these and other issues, in detail, into the sourceforge BTS.

----- version 0.191-1 -----
Initial Cygwin package.

Cygwin port maintained by: Rafael Kitover  (caelum@debian.org)
