WG: AW: Win32::Eventlog: Not found after upgrade

[sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ulrich.Herbst

> 3. I don't want to build Win32::Eventlog on my own... for these reasons:
> - I had to do it on many systems...
> - We don't have compilers and make and tools... installed on them 
> (production environments)

Ok - alternatively it's only *2* files that need to be installed - 
Win32/EventLog.pm and auto/Win32/EventLog/EventLog.dll.
After you've manually built the module on your local machine, you'll find 
the former in blib/lib and the latter in blib/arch.
Assuming you're running the same version of perl across all systems, it's 
just a matter of installing those files into one of the @INC directories on 
all machines.
By convention, I think you'd install them into 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14 - so you'd end up with
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/Win32/EventLog.pm
and
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14/auto/Win32/EventLog/EventLog.dll

If it's simple for you to effect that across the various systems, then you 
could go with that.

> So - will be in the near future a libwin32-version including 
> Win32::Eventlog running with Perl5.14 available from cygwin installer ?

I'm sort of thinking it should already be there. I'm running perl-5.14.2 on 
Cygwin-1.7.17, so I figured I'd test for myself ... alas, I can't find a 
mirror that can provide setup.ini, and setup.exe aborts at that point.
So I guess we wait for someone who *knows* to come along.

Btw, it would really help if, in your testing, you'd try to load 
Win32::EventLog instead of Win32::Eventlog. In some situations it probably 
doesn't matter, but testing the loading of "Win32::Eventlog" introduces an 
(unnecessary) uncertainty with which it would be better to go without.
The thing is that, although Windows is not case-sensitive, perl is - and 
failing to attend to case-sensitivity can lead to strange failures.

Cheers,
Rob


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