Thanks Jari, I think you reported this to me before, and I put something into the README file about it, but I forgot to make the change to Makefile.PL I've enclosed a new version of Makefile.PL. If you get a chance can you see if it works ok on cygwin? cheers Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Jari Aalto [mailto:jari.aalto@poboxes.com] > Sent: 17 May 2003 13:28 > To: Paul Marquess > Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org > Subject: Perl Compress-Zlib-1.21 Cygwin install trouble (DLL) > > > > Hi, > > I was installing Zlib through CPAN shell and ran into DLL > unlink problem,. If possible, could you display a message to user > that it's impossible to install Zlib completerly from cpan > prompt. Something like: > > "In Cygwin environment Windows cannot delete active DLLs. > Therefore to to complete Zlib install, exit the > CPAN prompt, and run 'make install' by hand under directory > ~/.cpan/build/Compress-Zlip-VERSION/." > > See > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00622.html > > I'm CC'ing this to Perl 5 porters as well, so that possible > other developers hear about this Win32/Cygwin problem as well. > > Jari >Thread Previous | Thread Next