If I could ask for an improvement I would really like to see Expect.pm (and thus Expect::Simple) working on Win32.
I am not sure what is the problem, but if it can compile on Cygwin then I guess one could extract the required part from Cygwin and include that in the Expect.pm distribution.
As I can see there was some solution as there seem to be a binary version of Expect for ActivePerl 5.6
So can anyone make that work?
I wrote at least one working Expect.pm program on Cygwin, several months ago. I don't recall having to do anything to get it to work. I was pleasantly surprised that it did work.
Re:Cygwin
gabor on 2006-06-28T14:06:14
Yes, I meant that I would like to use Expect.pm on native Win32 without the full Cygwin stack.Re:Cygwin
jdavidb on 2006-06-28T15:59:33
Ah, I get it now. I'm betting that it relies on just way too much of the handling in the Cygwin DLL. What finally got Expect.pm working on Cygwin was, I believe, not changes to Expect.pm (and the modules it relies on), but improvements to the Cygwin DLL itself. I suppose someone could extract the relevant portions of the Cygwin DLL, but I imagine you might wind up with most of the DLL.
But that's an uneducated opinion. It might in fact be very trivial.
