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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-09-23 04:09:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-09-23 04:09:43 +0000 |
| commit | 9a40db4d28396def5ff66694936971da4bd71c0f (patch) | |
| tree | 7d7d919cd8a017bf409d262dbbeabcda93f235f4 /README.win32 | |
| parent | 638bc1181648408738bc0f85920fa60225c46a73 (diff) | |
| download | perl-9a40db4d28396def5ff66694936971da4bd71c0f.tar.gz | |
tweak README.win32
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 85bab908b4..35c8100f01 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ following compilers: Borland C++ version 5.02 or later Microsoft Visual C++ version 4.2 or later - Mingw32 with EGCS version 1.0.2 + Mingw32 with EGCS versions 1.0.2, 1.1 Mingw32 with GCC version 2.8.1 The last two of these are high quality freeware compilers. Support @@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ from where Borland chose to install it, into the Windows system directory (usually somewhere like C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32), and rerun the test. The Visual C runtime apparently has a bug that causes posix.t to fail -one it test#2. This usually happens only if you extracted the files in -text mode. +test#2. This usually happens only if you extracted the files in text +mode. Enable the USE_PERLCRT option in the Makefile to fix this bug. Please report any other failures as described under L<BUGS AND CAVEATS>. @@ -269,9 +269,21 @@ variables you can set in L<perlrun>. You can also control the shell that perl uses to run system() and backtick commands via PERL5SHELL. See L<perlrun>. -Currently, Perl does not depend on the registry, but can look up -values if you choose to put them there. [XXX add registry locations -that perl looks at here.] +Perl does not depend on the registry, but it can look up certain default +values if you choose to put them there. Perl attempts to read entries from +C<HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Perl> and C<HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Perl>. +Entries in the former override entries in the latter. One or more of the +following entries (of type REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ) may be set: + + lib-$] version-specific path to add to @INC + lib path to add to @INC + sitelib-$] version-specific path to add to @INC + sitelib path to add to @INC + PERL* fallback for all %ENV lookups that begin with "PERL" + +Note the C<$]> in the above is not literal. Substitute whatever version +of perl you want to honor that entry, e.g. C<5.00502>. Paths must be +separated with semicolons, as usual on win32. =item File Globbing @@ -693,7 +705,9 @@ sundry hacks since then. Borland support was added in 5.004_01 (Gurusamy Sarathy). -Last updated: 12 July 1998 +GCC/mingw32 support was added in 5.005 (Nick Ing-Simmons). + +Last updated: 22 September 1998 =cut |