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| author | Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> | 2012-02-08 17:58:21 -0600 |
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| committer | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2012-02-09 12:52:12 +1100 |
| commit | 286f819461ff93f6b56f8f7d1b5689a84b32896f (patch) | |
| tree | 225b8a69b6b692291e4ebf5f03f682f145be7d5a /README.cygwin | |
| parent | 5bc802de7e259c78b42107eb3d64a617e13556f9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-286f819461ff93f6b56f8f7d1b5689a84b32896f.tar.gz | |
add Cygwin::sync_winenv [perl #110190]
Cygwin::sync_winenv should fix [CPAN #65052], ADODB missing
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%.
sync_winenv code and solution by Chris Day.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.cygwin')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.cygwin b/README.cygwin index 017c452277..4e3e6f57ff 100644 --- a/README.cygwin +++ b/README.cygwin @@ -513,6 +513,17 @@ User mounts override system mounts. Returns true if the given cygwin path is binary mounted, false if the path is mounted in textmode. +=item C<Cygwin::sync_winenv> + +Cygwin does not initialize all original Win32 environment variables. +See the bottom of this page L<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html> +for "Restricted Win32 environment". + +Certain Win32 programs called from cygwin programs might need some environment +variable, such as e.g. ADODB needs %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%. +Call Cygwin::sync_winenv() to copy all Win32 environment variables to your +process and note that cygwin will warn on every encounter of non-POSIX paths. + =back =head1 INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN |