All cygwin perl packages have been promoted to 5.10. So the previous test version perl-libwin32-0.28-2 was promoted to current. Project description: A useful bundle of Win32 Perl extensions. Port Changes: * Changed from gbs to cygport * Rebuilt for perl-5.10.0 (archname: i686-cygwin) The changes in the upstream release are as follows: 0.28 14 September 2007 + Win32API::Registry and Win32::TieRegistry modules have been removed; they are maintained independently on CPAN. + Bundle::libwin32 has been added. Installing this bundle via the CPAN shell will install all the modules that used to be part of libwin32 (currently Win32API::File, Win32API::Registry and Win32::TieRegistry in addition to libwin32 itself). Included modules (no changes): Win32API::File, Win32API::Net, Win32API::Registry, Win32::ChangeNotify, Win32::Clipboard, Win32::Console, Win32::Event, Win32::EventLog, Win32::File, Win32::FileSecurity, Win32::IPC, Win32::Internet, Win32::Job, Win32::Mutex, Win32::NetAdmin, Win32::NetResource, Win32::ODBC, Win32::OLE, Win32::PerfLib, Win32::Pipe, Win32::Process, Win32::Registry, Win32::Semaphore, Win32::Service, Win32::Shortcut, Win32::Sound, Win32::TieRegistry and Win32::WinError. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions and Click on "Exp" to get the Experimental branch for the new perl. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: ------------------ To build from source you will need the libiodbc package, and apply a small patch: wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/iodbc/libiodbc-3.52.5.tar.gz tar xfz libiodbc-3.52.5.tar.gz cd libiodbc-3.52.5 patch -b -p1 < ../libiodbc-3.52.5.patch ./configure --disable-gui --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make make check make install diff -ub /usr/include/iodbcunix.h.orig /usr/include/iodbcunix.h --- /usr/include/iodbcunix.h.orig 2007-07-23 17:18:17.625000000 +0000 +++ /usr/include/iodbcunix.h 2007-12-24 19:33:57.859375000 +0000 @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ #if defined (OBSOLETE_WINDOWS_TYPES) typedef unsigned char BYTE; #endif +#ifndef WIN32 typedef unsigned short WORD; typedef unsigned int DWORD; typedef char * LPSTR; @@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ typedef wchar_t * LPWSTR; typedef const wchar_t * LPCWSTR; typedef DWORD * LPDWORD; +#endif #if !defined(BOOL) && !defined(_OBJC_OBJC_H_) typedef int BOOL; END OF PATCH ------------------ *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.