This is a collection of modules originally distributed by the Activeware folks as part of their "Perl for Win32"(TM) port. They have been modified so that they will build under MakeMaker using perls greater than 5.003_99 and Visual C++. Along the way, I have added many bugfixes to make these modules work correctly. This collection will build with perl5.003_99a and later. You will first need to build and install that perl before proceeding with this set of modules. See README.win32 in the perl distribution for details on how to build perl on Win32. The following extensions have been "ported": Win32/EventLog Win32/File Win32/FileSecurity Win32/NetAdmin Win32/NetResource Win32/OLE Win32/Registry Win32/Service Win32/WinError Win32/ChangeNotify Win32/IPC Win32/Mutex Win32/Process Win32/Semaphore Note this covers all of the Win32 extensions distributed by Activeware (as of build 306). These extensions have been re-engineered to use the XS interface language. Working on these was a rather unpleasant task due to what I consider to be poor design and implementation of these modules. While I have tried to keep most of my changes compatible with the originals at the present time, I plan to rework these modules radically when I find the time. The only incompatible change is in the Win32::OLE module. While the Activeware port used the "OLE::" and "Win32::" namespaces for the functionality contained in this module, this port uses "Win32::OLE::" consistently. For a list of other incompatibilities in this module, see the embedded documentation in "OLE/OLE.pm". Building: + You need to extract this into an NTFS file system (the tests in the FileSecurity module and Net* modules will fail otherwise). The testsuite for OLE needs Excel to run. NetAdmin will only work if you have some kind of live network connection. NetResource requires that you be part of a domain or workgroup. You may also need Administrator prvileges for running some of the tests. If one or more of these conditions will not be met, you may wish to build in the subdirectories one by one. The steps below will work either at the toplevel directory, or in each of the individual extension subdirectories. + You need MS Visual C++ (NetAdmin needs ver. 4.0+, ver. 2.0 should suffice for the others). + perl Makefile.PL + nmake + nmake test [optionally] + nmake install I hope this kickstarts the process of bringing the divergant Win32:: extensions back into the MakeMaker fold. Suggestions, patches, testsuite additions, wholesale rewrites and additional ports of modules welcome. Gurusamy Sarathy gsar@umich.edu 11-MAY-1997 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed by ActiveWare Internet Corp., http://www.ActiveWare.com Other modifications (c) 1997 by Gurusamy Sarathy You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file of the Perl distribution.