Alternatively, the crypt libraries in GNU libc have been ported to Cygwin.
+As of libcrypt 1.3 (March 2016), you will need to install the
+libcrypt-devel package for Configure to detect crypt().
+
=item * C<-lgdbm_compat> (C<use GDBM_File>)
GDBM is available for Cygwin.