3 If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
4 see. It is written in the POD format (see F<pod/perlpod.pod>) which is
5 specially designed to be readable as is.
9 perlcygwin - Perl for Cygwin
13 This document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl
14 on Cygwin. This document also describes features of Cygwin that will
15 affect how Perl behaves at runtime.
17 B<NOTE:> There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a
18 version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install. If you do
19 not need to customize the configuration, consider using one of those
23 =head1 PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
25 =head2 Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
27 The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Win32
28 platforms. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX
29 system calls and environment these programs expect. More information
30 about this project can be found at:
32 L<https://www.cygwin.com/>
34 A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.
36 At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 3.0.7 was current.
39 =head2 Cygwin Configuration
41 While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup so
42 that Perl builds cleanly. These changes are B<not> required for normal
45 B<NOTE:> The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions.
46 They do not depend on your host system or your
47 Cygwin configuration (binary/text mounts, cygserver).
48 The only dependencies come from hard-coded pathnames like F</usr/local>.
49 However, your host system and Cygwin configuration will affect Perl's
50 runtime behavior (see L</"TEST">).
56 Set the C<PATH> environment variable so that Configure finds the Cygwin
57 versions of programs. Any not-needed Windows directories should be removed or
58 moved to the end of your C<PATH>.
62 If you do not have I<nroff> (which is part of the I<groff> package),
63 Configure will B<not> prompt you to install I<man> pages.
67 =head1 CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
69 The default options gathered by Configure with the assistance of
70 F<hints/cygwin.sh> will build a Perl that supports dynamic loading
71 (which requires a shared F<cygperl5_16.dll>).
73 This will run Configure and keep a record:
75 ./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure
77 If you are willing to accept all the defaults run Configure with B<-de>.
78 However, several useful customizations are available.
80 =head2 Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
82 It is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process.
83 The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller. If you want the
84 binaries to be stripped, you can either add a B<-s> option when Configure
87 Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s
88 Any special flags to pass to g++ to create a dynamically loaded
91 Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s
93 or you can edit F<hints/cygwin.sh> and uncomment the relevant variables
94 near the end of the file.
96 =head2 Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
98 Several Perl functions and modules depend on the existence of
99 some optional libraries. Configure will find them if they are
100 installed in one of the directories listed as being used for library
101 searches. Pre-built packages for most of these are available from
102 the Cygwin installer.
108 The crypt package distributed with Cygwin is a Linux compatible 56-bit
109 DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.
111 Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to Cygwin.
113 As of libcrypt 1.3 (March 2016), you will need to install the
114 libcrypt-devel package for Configure to detect crypt().
116 =item * C<-lgdbm_compat> (C<use GDBM_File>)
118 GDBM is available for Cygwin.
120 NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.
122 =item * C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>)
124 BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.
126 NOTE: The BerkeleyDB library only completely works on NTFS partitions.
128 =item * C<cygserver> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
130 A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.
132 NOTE: This has B<not> been extensively tested. In particular,
133 C<d_semctl_semun> is undefined because it fails a Configure test. It
134 also creates a compile time dependency because F<perl.h> includes
135 F<<sys/ipc.h>> and F<<sys/sem.h>> (which will be required in the
136 future when compiling CPAN modules). CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!
140 Included with the standard Cygwin netrelease is the inetutils package
141 which includes libutil.a.
145 =head2 Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
147 The F<INSTALL> document describes several Configure-time options. Some of
148 these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible. Also, some of
149 these are experimental. You can either select an option when Configure
150 prompts you or you can define (undefine) symbols on the command line.
156 Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled statically.
158 =item * C<-Dusemymalloc>
160 By default Perl does not use the C<malloc()> included with the Perl source,
161 because it was slower and not entirely thread-safe. If you want to force
162 Perl to build with the old -Dusemymalloc define this.
164 =item * C<-Uuseperlio>
166 Undefining this symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction. PerlIO is now the
167 default; it is not recommended to disable PerlIO.
169 =item * C<-Dusemultiplicity>
171 Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl in a C program and using
172 more than one interpreter instance. This is only required when you build
173 a not-threaded perl with C<-Uuseithreads>.
175 =item * C<-Uuse64bitint>
177 By default Perl uses 64 bit integers. If you want to use smaller 32 bit
178 integers, define this symbol.
180 =item * C<-Duselongdouble>
182 I<gcc> supports long doubles (12 bytes). However, several additional
183 long double math functions are necessary to use them within Perl
184 (I<{atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod, frexp, isnan, log, modf, pow, sin, sqrt}l,
186 These are B<not> yet available with newlib, the Cygwin libc.
188 =item * C<-Uuseithreads>
190 Define this symbol if you want not-threaded faster perl.
192 =item * C<-Duselargefiles>
194 Cygwin uses 64-bit integers for internal size and position calculations,
195 this will be correctly detected and defined by Configure.
197 =item * C<-Dmksymlinks>
199 Use this to build perl outside of the source tree. Details can be
200 found in the F<INSTALL> document. This is the recommended way to
201 build perl from sources.
205 =head1 MAKE ON CYGWIN
207 Simply run I<make> and wait:
209 make -jn 2>&1 | tee log.make
211 where I<n> is the maximum number of simultaneous compilations you want;
212 omitting this parameter is the same as specifying C<-j1>.
214 =head1 TEST ON CYGWIN
216 There are two steps to running the test suite:
218 make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test
220 cd t; ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness
222 The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided when
223 running as C<./perl harness>, and you can run the tests in parallel by
226 cd t; TEST_JOBS=n ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness
228 where I<n> is the maximum number of tests to run simulataneously.
230 Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin
231 configuration. If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup, it is always
232 attempted and explainable test failures are documented. It is possible
233 for Perl to pass all the tests, but it is more likely that some tests
234 will fail for one of the reasons listed below.
236 =head2 File Permissions on Cygwin
238 UNIX file permissions are based on sets of mode bits for
239 {read,write,execute} for each {user,group,other}. By default Cygwin
240 only tracks the Win32 read-only attribute represented as the UNIX file
241 user write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if they
242 have a F<.{com,bat,exe}> extension or begin with C<#!>, directories are
243 always readable and executable). On WinNT with the I<ntea> C<CYGWIN>
244 setting, the additional mode bits are stored as extended file attributes.
245 On WinNT with the default I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> setting, permissions use the
246 standard WinNT security descriptors and access control lists. Without one of
247 these options, these tests will fail (listing not updated yet):
249 Failed Test List of failed
250 ------------------------------------
260 op/stat.t 9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)
262 =head2 NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
264 Do not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem. They can be
265 built on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:
267 ../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t 13 3328 71 59 83.10% 1-2 4 16-71
268 ../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t 255 65280 ?? ?? % ??
269 ../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 2 512 12 2 16.67% 1 4
270 ../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t 0 139 11 5 45.45% 7-11
271 ../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t 13 3328 4 4 100.00% 1-4
272 run/fresh_perl.t 97 1 1.03% 91
274 If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on FAT),
275 run Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent
276 NDBM_File and ODBM_File being built.
278 With NTFS (and no CYGWIN=nontsec), there should be no problems even if
279 perl was built on FAT.
281 =head2 C<fork()> failures in io_* tests
283 A C<fork()> failure may result in the following tests failing:
285 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
286 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t
287 ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t
289 See comment on fork in L</Miscellaneous> below.
291 =head1 Specific features of the Cygwin port
293 =head2 Script Portability on Cygwin
295 Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top of
296 Win32 systems. However, in addition to the items noted above, there are
297 some differences that you should know about. This is a very brief guide
298 to portability, more information can be found in the Cygwin documentation.
304 Cygwin pathnames are separated by forward (F</>) slashes, Universal
305 Naming Codes (F<//UNC>) are also supported. Since cygwin-1.7 non-POSIX
306 pathnames should not be used. Names may contain all printable
309 File names are case insensitive, but case preserving. A pathname that
310 contains a backslash or drive letter is a Win32 pathname, and not
311 subject to the translations applied to POSIX style pathnames, but
312 cygwin will warn you, so better convert them to POSIX.
314 For conversion we have C<Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()> and
315 C<Cygwin::posix_to_win_path()>.
317 Since cygwin-1.7 pathnames are UTF-8 encoded.
321 Since cygwin-1.7 textmounts are deprecated and strongly discouraged.
323 When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode. In text mode
324 a file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations. With Cygwin, the default
325 mode for an C<open()> is determined by the mode of the mount that underlies
326 the file. See L</Cygwin::is_binmount>(). Perl provides a C<binmode()> function
327 to set binary mode on files that otherwise would be treated as text.
328 C<sysopen()> with the C<O_TEXT> flag sets text mode on files that otherwise
329 would be treated as binary:
331 sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)
333 C<lseek()>, C<tell()> and C<sysseek()> only work with files opened in binary
336 The text/binary issue is covered at length in the Cygwin documentation.
340 PerlIO overrides the default Cygwin Text/Binary behaviour. A file will
341 always be treated as binary, regardless of the mode of the mount it lives
342 on, just like it is in UNIX. So CR/LF translation needs to be requested in
343 either the C<open()> call like this:
345 open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");
347 which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output, or in the
348 environment settings (add this to your .bashrc):
352 which will pull in the crlf PerlIO layer which does LF -> CRLF conversion
353 on every output generated by perl.
357 The Cygwin C<stat()>, C<lstat()> and C<readlink()> functions make the F<.exe>
358 extension transparent by looking for F<foo.exe> when you ask for F<foo>
359 (unless a F<foo> also exists). Cygwin does not require a F<.exe>
360 extension, but I<gcc> adds it automatically when building a program.
361 However, when accessing an executable as a normal file (e.g., I<cp>
362 in a makefile) the F<.exe> is not transparent. The I<install> program
363 included with Cygwin automatically appends a F<.exe> when necessary.
365 =item * Cygwin vs. Windows process ids
367 Cygwin processes have their own pid, which is different from the
368 underlying windows pid. Most posix compliant Proc functions expect
369 the cygwin pid, but several Win32::Process functions expect the
370 winpid. E.g. C<$$> is the cygwin pid of F</usr/bin/perl>, which is not
371 the winpid. Use C<Cygwin::pid_to_winpid()> and C<Cygwin::winpid_to_pid()>
372 to translate between them.
374 =item * Cygwin vs. Windows errors
376 Under Cygwin, $^E is the same as $!. When using L<Win32 API Functions|Win32>,
377 use C<Win32::GetLastError()> to get the last Windows error.
379 =item * rebase errors on fork or system
381 Using C<fork()> or C<system()> out to another perl after loading multiple dlls
382 may result on a DLL baseaddress conflict. The internal cygwin error
383 looks like like the following:
385 0 [main] perl 8916 child_info_fork::abort: data segment start:
386 parent (0xC1A000) != child(0xA6A000)
390 183 [main] perl 3588 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
391 unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygsvn_subr-1-0.dll to same address
392 as parent(0x6FB30000) != 0x6FE60000 46 [main] perl 3488 fork: child
393 3588 - died waiting for dll loading, errno11
395 See L<https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>
396 It helps if not too many DLLs are loaded in memory so the available address space is larger,
397 e.g. stopping the MS Internet Explorer might help.
399 +Use the rebase utilities to resolve the conflicting dll addresses.
400 The rebase package is included in the Cygwin setup. Use F<setup.exe>
401 from L<https://cygwin.com/install.html> to install it.
403 1. kill all perl processes and run
404 C<</bin/find <dir> -xdev -name \*.dll | /bin/rebase -OT ->> or
406 2. kill all cygwin processes and services, and run setup.exe.
408 =item * Miscellaneous
410 File locking using the C<F_GETLK> command to C<fcntl()> is a stub that
413 The Cygwin C<chroot()> implementation has holes (it can not restrict file
414 access by native Win32 programs).
416 Inplace editing C<perl -i> of files doesn't work without doing a backup
417 of the file being edited C<perl -i.bak> because of windowish restrictions,
418 therefore Perl adds the suffix C<.bak> automatically if you use C<perl -i>
419 without specifying a backup extension.
423 =head2 Prebuilt methods:
429 Returns the current working directory.
431 =item C<Cygwin::pid_to_winpid>
433 Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may or
434 may not be the same).
436 =item C<Cygwin::winpid_to_pid>
438 Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).
440 =item C<Cygwin::win_to_posix_path>
442 Translates a Windows path to the corresponding cygwin path respecting
443 the current mount points. With a second non-null argument returns an
444 absolute path. Double-byte characters will not be translated.
446 =item C<Cygwin::posix_to_win_path>
448 Translates a cygwin path to the corresponding cygwin path respecting
449 the current mount points. With a second non-null argument returns an
450 absolute path. Double-byte characters will not be translated.
452 =item C<Cygwin::mount_table()>
454 Returns an array of [mnt_dir, mnt_fsname, mnt_type, mnt_opts].
456 perl -e 'for $i (Cygwin::mount_table) {print join(" ",@$i),"\n";}'
457 /bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode,cygexec
458 /usr/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode
459 /usr/lib c:\cygwin\lib system binmode
460 / c:\cygwin system binmode
461 /cygdrive/c c: system binmode,noumount
462 /cygdrive/d d: system binmode,noumount
463 /cygdrive/e e: system binmode,noumount
465 =item C<Cygwin::mount_flags>
467 Returns the mount type and flags for a specified mount point.
468 A comma-separated string of mntent->mnt_type (always
469 "system" or "user"), then the mntent->mnt_opts, where
470 the first is always "binmode" or "textmode".
472 system|user,binmode|textmode,exec,cygexec,cygdrive,mixed,
473 notexec,managed,nosuid,devfs,proc,noumount
475 If the argument is "/cygdrive", then just the volume mount settings,
476 and the cygdrive mount prefix are returned.
478 User mounts override system mounts.
480 $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/usr/bin"'
481 system,binmode,cygexec
482 $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/cygdrive"'
483 binmode,cygdrive,/cygdrive
485 =item C<Cygwin::is_binmount>
487 Returns true if the given cygwin path is binary mounted, false if the
488 path is mounted in textmode.
490 =item C<Cygwin::sync_winenv>
492 Cygwin does not initialize all original Win32 environment variables.
493 See the bottom of this page L<https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html>
494 for "Restricted Win32 environment".
496 Certain Win32 programs called from cygwin programs might need some environment
497 variable, such as e.g. ADODB needs %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%.
498 Call Cygwin::sync_winenv() to copy all Win32 environment variables to your
499 process and note that cygwin will warn on every encounter of non-POSIX paths.
503 =head1 INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
505 This will install Perl, including I<man> pages.
507 make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install
509 NOTE: If C<STDERR> is redirected C<make install> will B<not> prompt
510 you to install I<perl> into F</usr/bin>.
512 You may need to be I<Administrator> to run C<make install>. If you
513 are not, you must have write access to the directories in question.
515 Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be
516 found in the F<INSTALL> document.
518 =head1 MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
520 These are the files in the Perl release that contain references to Cygwin.
521 These very brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all conditional
522 code. Hopefully, keeping this up to date will allow the Cygwin port to
523 be kept as clean as possible.
529 INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST
530 pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
531 pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod
532 pod/perl561delta.pod pod/perl570delta.pod pod/perl572delta.pod
533 pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perl581delta.pod
534 pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
535 pod/perltoc.pod Porting/Glossary pod/perlgit.pod
536 Porting/updateAUTHORS.pl
537 dist/Cwd/Changes ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Changes
538 dist/Time-HiRes/Changes
539 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/README ext/Compress-Zlib/Changes
540 ext/DB_File/Changes ext/Encode/Changes ext/Sys-Syslog/Changes
541 ext/Win32API-File/Changes
542 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Changes lib/ExtUtils/Changes
543 lib/ExtUtils/NOTES lib/ExtUtils/PATCHING lib/ExtUtils/README
544 lib/Net/Ping/Changes lib/Test/Harness/Changes
545 lib/Term/ANSIColor/ChangeLog lib/Term/ANSIColor/README
547 =item Build, Configure, Make, Install
550 ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl
551 ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
552 ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
554 Configure - help finding hints from uname,
555 shared libperl required for dynamic loading
556 Makefile.SH Cross/Makefile-cross-SH
558 Porting/patchls - cygwin in port list
559 installman - man pages with :: translated to .
560 installperl - install dll, install to 'pods'
561 makedepend.SH - uwinfix
562 regen_lib.pl - file permissions
565 vms/descrip_mms.template
570 t/io/fs.t - no file mode checks if not ntsec
571 skip rename() check when not
573 t/io/tell.t - binmode
574 t/lib/cygwin.t - builtin cygwin function tests
575 t/op/groups.t - basegroup has ID = 0
576 t/op/magic.t - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe//
577 t/op/stat.t - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk
578 (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of
579 file previously created and deleted), no -u
581 t/op/taint.t - can't use empty path under Cygwin Perl
582 t/op/time.t - no tzset()
584 =item Compiled Perl Source
586 EXTERN.h - __declspec(dllimport)
587 XSUB.h - __declspec(dllexport)
588 cygwin/cygwin.c - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, and several
590 perl.c - os_extras, -i.bak
592 doio.c - win9x can not rename a file when it is open
593 pp_sys.c - do not define h_errno, init
594 _pwent_struct.pw_comment
596 util.h - PERL_FILE_IS_ABSOLUTE macro
597 pp.c - Comment about Posix vs IEEE math under
599 perlio.c - CR/LF mode
600 perliol.c - Comment about EXTCONST under Cygwin
602 =item Compiled Module Source
604 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL
605 - Can't install via CPAN shell under Cygwin
606 ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src/zutil.h
607 - Cygwin is Unix-like and has vsnprintf
608 ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL - Special handling for Win32 Perl under
610 ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs - tzname defined externally
611 ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c
612 - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from
614 ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
616 ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
617 - Cygwin has syslog.h
618 ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/compile.pl
619 - Convert paths to Windows paths
620 ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.xs
621 - Various timers not available
622 ext/Time-HiRes/Makefile.PL
623 - Find w32api/windows.h
624 ext/Win32/Makefile.PL - Use various libraries under Cygwin
625 ext/Win32/Win32.xs - Child dir and child env under Cygwin
626 ext/Win32API-File/File.xs
627 - _open_osfhandle not implemented under
629 ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
630 - __declspec(dllexport)
632 =item Perl Modules/Scripts
634 ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm - Comment about stderr/stdout order under
636 ext/Digest-SHA/bin/shasum
637 - Use binary mode under Cygwin
638 ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm
639 - Convert paths to Windows paths
640 ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.pm
641 - Comment about various timers not available
642 ext/Win32API-File/File.pm
643 - _open_osfhandle not implemented under
645 ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.pm
646 - History of Win32CORE under Cygwin
647 lib/Cwd.pm - hook to internal Cwd::cwd
648 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/cygwin.pm
649 - use gcc for ld, and link to libperl.dll.a
650 lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm
651 - Cygwin is Unix-like
652 lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - Install and rename issues under Cygwin
653 lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm - OS classifications
654 lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm - Example for Cygwin
655 lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
656 - require MM_Cygwin.pm
657 lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
658 - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
659 lib/File/Fetch.pm - Comment about quotes using a Cygwin example
660 lib/File/Find.pm - on remote drives stat() always sets
662 lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm - case_tolerant
663 lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc
664 lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm - References a message on cygwin.com
665 lib/File/Spec.pm - Pulls in lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm
666 lib/File/Temp.pm - no directory sticky bit
667 lib/Module/CoreList.pm - List of all module files and versions
668 lib/Net/Domain.pm - No domainname command under Cygwin
669 lib/Net/Netrc.pm - Bypass using stat() under Cygwin
670 lib/Net/Ping.pm - ECONREFUSED is EAGAIN under Cygwin
671 lib/Pod/Find.pm - Set 'pods' dir
672 lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm - '-c' switch for pod2man
673 lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm - Use 'less' pager, and use .exe extension
674 lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm - Cygwin terminal info
675 lib/perl5db.pl - use stdin not /dev/tty
676 utils/perlbug.PL - Add CYGWIN environment variable to report
678 =item Perl Module Tests
681 ext/Compress-Zlib/t/14gzopen.t
682 ext/DB_File/t/db-btree.t
683 ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t
684 ext/DB_File/t/db-recno.t
685 ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t
686 ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t
687 ext/GDBM_File/t/gdbm.t
688 ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t
690 ext/SDBM_File/t/sdbm.t
691 ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
692 ext/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t
693 ext/Win32/t/Unicode.t
694 ext/Win32API-File/t/file.t
695 ext/Win32CORE/t/win32core.t
697 lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t
698 lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t
699 lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t
700 lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command.t
701 lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Cygwin.t
702 lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix.t
705 lib/File/Find/t/find.t
707 lib/File/Spec/t/crossplatform.t
708 lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
710 lib/Net/Ping/t/110_icmp_inst.t
711 lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t
713 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcyg.pod
714 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcygo.txt
715 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaq.pod
716 lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaqo.txt
722 =head1 BUGS ON CYGWIN
724 Support for swapping real and effective user and group IDs is incomplete.
725 On WinNT Cygwin provides C<setuid()>, C<seteuid()>, C<setgid()> and C<setegid()>.
726 However, additional Cygwin calls for manipulating WinNT access tokens
727 and security contexts are required.
744 Last updated: 2019-11-14