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[perl5.git] / README.win32

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 6d9b015..35c8100 100644 (file)
--- 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
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ If the build fails under that shell, try building again with the cmd
 shell.  The Makefile also has known incompatibilites with the "command.com"
 shell that comes with Windows95, so building under Windows95 should
 be considered "unsupported".  However, there have been reports of successful
-build attempts using 4DOS/NT version 3.00 under Windows95, using dmake, but
+build attempts using 4DOS/NT version 6.01 under Windows95, using dmake, but
 your mileage may vary.
 
 The surest way to build it is on WindowsNT, using the cmd shell.
@@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ available worldwide, usually along with SSLeay (for example:
 "ftp://fractal.mta.ca/pub/crypto/SSLeay/DES/").  Set CRYPT_SRC to the
 name of the file that implements des_fcrypt().  Alternatively, if
 you have built a library that contains des_fcrypt(), you can set
-CRYPT_LIB to point to the library name.
+CRYPT_LIB to point to the library name.  The location above contains
+many versions of the "libdes" library, all with slightly different
+implementations of des_fcrypt().  Older versions have a single,
+self-contained file (fcrypt.c) that implements crypt(), so they may be
+easier to use.  A patch against the fcrypt.c found in libdes-3.06 is
+in des_fcrypt.patch.
 
 Perl will also build without des_fcrypt(), but the crypt() builtin will
 fail at run time.
@@ -227,8 +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>.
 
@@ -264,9 +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
 
@@ -688,7 +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