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NAME
       perlcygwin - Perl for Cygwin

SYNOPSIS
       This document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl on
       Cygwin.  This document also describes features of Cygwin that will
       affect how Perl behaves at runtime.

       NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a
       version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install.  If you do not
       need to customize the configuration, consider using one of those
       packages.

PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
   Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
       The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for
       Win32 platforms.  They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides
       the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect.  More
       information about this project can be found at:

       <https://www.cygwin.com/>

       A recent net or commercial release of Cygwin is required.

       At the time this document was last updated, Cygwin 3.0.7 was current.

   Cygwin Configuration
       While building Perl some changes may be necessary to your Cygwin setup
       so that Perl builds cleanly.  These changes are not required for normal
       Perl usage.

       NOTE: The binaries that are built will run on all Win32 versions.  They
       do not depend on your host system or your Cygwin configuration
       (binary/text mounts, cygserver).  The only dependencies come from hard-
       coded pathnames like /usr/local.  However, your host system and Cygwin
       configuration will affect Perl's runtime behavior (see "TEST").

       •   "PATH"

           Set  the  "PATH"  environment  variable  so that Configure finds the
           Cygwin versions of  programs.  Any  not-needed  Windows  directories
           should be removed or moved to the end of your "PATH".

       •   nroff

           If  you  do  not  have  nroff  (which is part of the groff package),
           Configure will not prompt you to install man pages.

CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
       The default  options  gathered  by  Configure  with  the  assistance  of
       hints/cygwin.sh  will  build a Perl that supports dynamic loading (which
       requires a shared cygperl5_16.dll).

       This will run Configure and keep a record:

         ./Configure 2>&1 | tee log.configure

       If you are willing to accept all the defaults run  Configure  with  -de.
       However, several useful customizations are available.

   Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
       It  is possible to strip the EXEs and DLLs created by the build process.
       The resulting binaries will be significantly smaller.  If you  want  the
       binaries  to  be stripped, you can either add a -s option when Configure
       prompts you,

         Any additional ld flags (NOT including libraries)? [none] -s
         Any special flags to pass to g++ to create a dynamically loaded
         library?
         [none] -s
         Any special flags to pass to gcc to use dynamic linking? [none] -s

       or you can edit hints/cygwin.sh and  uncomment  the  relevant  variables
       near the end of the file.

   Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
       Several  Perl  functions  and  modules  depend  on the existence of some
       optional libraries.  Configure will find them if they are  installed  in
       one  of the directories listed as being used for library searches.  Pre-
       built  packages  for  most  of  these  are  available  from  the  Cygwin
       installer.

       •   "-lcrypt"

           The  crypt  package  distributed  with  Cygwin is a Linux compatible
           56-bit DES crypt port by Corinna Vinschen.

           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().

       •   "-lgdbm_compat" ("use GDBM_File")

           GDBM is available for Cygwin.

           NOTE: The GDBM library only works on NTFS partitions.

       •   "-ldb" ("use DB_File")

           BerkeleyDB is available for Cygwin.

           NOTE:  The  BerkeleyDB  library  only  completely  works   on   NTFS
           partitions.

       •   "cygserver" ("use IPC::SysV")

           A port of SysV IPC is available for Cygwin.

           NOTE:   This  has  not  been  extensively  tested.   In  particular,
           "d_semctl_semun" is undefined because it fails a Configure test.  It
           also creates a  compile  time  dependency  because  perl.h  includes
           <sys/ipc.h>  and  <sys/sem.h>  (which will be required in the future
           when compiling CPAN modules). CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED!

       •   "-lutil"

           Included with  the  standard  Cygwin  netrelease  is  the  inetutils
           package which includes libutil.a.

   Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
       The  INSTALL document describes several Configure-time options.  Some of
       these will work with Cygwin, others are not yet possible.  Also, some of
       these are experimental.  You can either select an option when  Configure
       prompts you or you can define (undefine) symbols on the command line.

       •   "-Uusedl"

           Undefining this symbol forces Perl to be compiled statically.

       •   "-Dusemymalloc"

           By  default  Perl  does  not use the malloc() included with the Perl
           source, because it was slower and not entirely thread-safe.  If  you
           want to force Perl to build with the old -Dusemymalloc define this.

       •   "-Uuseperlio"

           Undefining  this  symbol disables the PerlIO abstraction.  PerlIO is
           now the default; it is not recommended to disable PerlIO.

       •   "-Dusemultiplicity"

           Multiplicity is required when embedding Perl  in  a  C  program  and
           using  more  than  one  interpreter instance.  This is only required
           when you build a not-threaded perl with "-Uuseithreads".

       •   "-Uuse64bitint"

           By default Perl uses 64 bit integers.  If you want to use smaller 32
           bit integers, define this symbol.

       •   "-Duselongdouble"

           gcc supports long doubles (12 bytes).  However,  several  additional
           long  double  math  functions  are necessary to use them within Perl
           ({atan2, cos, exp, floor, fmod, frexp, isnan, log, modf,  pow,  sin,
           sqrt}l,  strtold).   These  are  not  yet available with newlib, the
           Cygwin libc.

       •   "-Uuseithreads"

           Define this symbol if you want not-threaded faster perl.

       •   "-Duselargefiles"

           Cygwin  uses  64-bit  integers  for  internal  size   and   position
           calculations,  this  will  be  correctly  detected  and  defined  by
           Configure.

       •   "-Dmksymlinks"

           Use this to build perl outside of the source tree.  Details  can  be
           found in the INSTALL document.  This is the recommended way to build
           perl from sources.

MAKE ON CYGWIN
       Simply run make and wait:

         make -jn 2>&1 | tee log.make

       where  n  is  the  maximum number of simultaneous compilations you want;
       omitting this parameter is the same as specifying "-j1".

TEST ON CYGWIN
       There are two steps to running the test suite:

         make test 2>&1 | tee log.make-test

         cd t; ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness

       The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided when
       running as "./perl harness", and you can run the tests  in  parallel  by
       instead specifying

         cd t; TEST_JOBS=n ./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness

       where n is the maximum number of tests to run simulataneously.

       Test  results  vary  depending  on  your  host  system  and  your Cygwin
       configuration.  If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup,  it  is  always
       attempted  and explainable test failures are documented.  It is possible
       for Perl to pass all the tests, but it is more likely  that  some  tests
       will fail for one of the reasons listed below.

   File Permissions on Cygwin
       UNIX   file   permissions   are   based   on   sets  of  mode  bits  for
       {read,write,execute} for each  {user,group,other}.   By  default  Cygwin
       only  tracks  the Win32 read-only attribute represented as the UNIX file
       user write bit (files are always readable, files are executable if  they
       have  a  .{com,bat,exe}  extension  or  begin with "#!", directories are
       always readable and  executable).   On  WinNT  with  the  ntea  "CYGWIN"
       setting,   the   additional  mode  bits  are  stored  as  extended  file
       attributes.   On  WinNT  with  the  default  ntsec   "CYGWIN"   setting,
       permissions  use  the  standard  WinNT  security  descriptors and access
       control lists. Without one of  these  options,  these  tests  will  fail
       (listing not updated yet):

         Failed Test           List of failed
         ------------------------------------
         io/fs.t               5, 7, 9-10
         lib/anydbm.t          2
         lib/db-btree.t        20
         lib/db-hash.t         16
         lib/db-recno.t        18
         lib/gdbm.t            2
         lib/ndbm.t            2
         lib/odbm.t            2
         lib/sdbm.t            2
         op/stat.t             9, 20 (.tmp not an executable extension)

   NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
       Do  not use NDBM_File or ODBM_File on FAT filesystem.  They can be built
       on a FAT filesystem, but many tests will fail:

        ../ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t       13  3328    71   59  83.10%  1-2 4 16-71
        ../ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t      255 65280    ??   ??       %  ??
        ../lib/AnyDBM_File.t           2   512    12    2  16.67%  1 4
        ../lib/Memoize/t/errors.t      0   139    11    5  45.45%  7-11
        ../lib/Memoize/t/tie_ndbm.t   13  3328     4    4 100.00%  1-4
        run/fresh_perl.t                          97    1   1.03%  91

       If you intend to run only on FAT (or if using AnyDBM_File on  FAT),  run
       Configure with the -Ui_ndbm and -Ui_dbm options to prevent NDBM_File and
       ODBM_File being built.

       With  NTFS  (and no CYGWIN=nontsec), there should be no problems even if
       perl was built on FAT.

   fork() failures in io_* tests
       A fork() failure may result in the following tests failing:

         ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_multihomed.t
         ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_sock.t
         ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t

       See comment on fork in "Miscellaneous" below.

Specific features of the Cygwin port
   Script Portability on Cygwin
       Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics  on  top
       of  Win32 systems.  However, in addition to the items noted above, there
       are some differences that you should know about.  This is a  very  brief
       guide  to  portability,  more  information  can  be  found in the Cygwin
       documentation.

       •   Pathnames

           Cygwin pathnames are separated by  forward  (/)  slashes,  Universal
           Naming Codes (//UNC) are also supported.  Since cygwin-1.7 non-POSIX
           pathnames  should  not  be  used.   Names  may contain all printable
           characters.

           File names are case insensitive, but case  preserving.   A  pathname
           that  contains  a backslash or drive letter is a Win32 pathname, and
           not subject to the translations applied to  POSIX  style  pathnames,
           but cygwin will warn you, so better convert them to POSIX.

           For    conversion    we    have    Cygwin::win_to_posix_path()   and
           Cygwin::posix_to_win_path().

           Since cygwin-1.7 pathnames are UTF-8 encoded.

       •   Text/Binary

           Since cygwin-1.7 textmounts are deprecated and strongly discouraged.

           When a file is opened it is in either text or binary mode.  In  text
           mode  a  file is subject to CR/LF/Ctrl-Z translations.  With Cygwin,
           the default mode for an open() is determined  by  the  mode  of  the
           mount  that  underlies  the  file. See "Cygwin::is_binmount"(). Perl
           provides a binmode() function to  set  binary  mode  on  files  that
           otherwise  would  be  treated  as text.  sysopen() with the "O_TEXT"
           flag sets text mode on files that  otherwise  would  be  treated  as
           binary:

               sysopen(FOO, "bar", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TEXT)

           lseek(),  tell() and sysseek() only work with files opened in binary
           mode.

           The  text/binary  issue  is  covered  at  length   in   the   Cygwin
           documentation.

       •   PerlIO

           PerlIO  overrides  the default Cygwin Text/Binary behaviour.  A file
           will always be treated as binary, regardless  of  the  mode  of  the
           mount  it  lives  on, just like it is in UNIX.  So CR/LF translation
           needs to be requested in either the open() call like this:

             open(FH, ">:crlf", "out.txt");

           which will do conversion from LF to CR/LF on the output, or  in  the
           environment settings (add this to your .bashrc):

             export PERLIO=crlf

           which  will  pull  in  the  crlf  PerlIO layer which does LF -> CRLF
           conversion on every output generated by perl.

       •   .exe

           The Cygwin stat(), lstat() and readlink() functions  make  the  .exe
           extension  transparent  by  looking for foo.exe when you ask for foo
           (unless a  foo  also  exists).   Cygwin  does  not  require  a  .exe
           extension,  but  gcc  adds it automatically when building a program.
           However, when accessing an executable as a normal file (e.g., cp  in
           a  makefile)  the  .exe  is  not  transparent.   The install program
           included with Cygwin automatically appends a .exe when necessary.

       •   Cygwin vs. Windows process ids

           Cygwin processes have their own pid, which  is  different  from  the
           underlying  windows pid.  Most posix compliant Proc functions expect
           the cygwin pid, but  several  Win32::Process  functions  expect  the
           winpid. E.g. $$ is the cygwin pid of /usr/bin/perl, which is not the
           winpid.   Use Cygwin::pid_to_winpid() and Cygwin::winpid_to_pid() to
           translate between them.

       •   Cygwin vs. Windows errors

           Under Cygwin,  $^E  is  the  same  as  $!.   When  using  Win32  API
           Functions, use Win32::GetLastError() to get the last Windows error.

       •   rebase errors on fork or system

           Using  fork() or system() out to another perl after loading multiple
           dlls may result on a DLL baseaddress conflict. The  internal  cygwin
           error looks like like the following:

            0 [main] perl 8916 child_info_fork::abort: data segment start:
            parent (0xC1A000) != child(0xA6A000)

           or:

            183 [main] perl 3588 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
            unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygsvn_subr-1-0.dll to same address
            as parent(0x6FB30000) != 0x6FE60000 46 [main] perl 3488 fork: child
            3588 - died waiting for dll loading, errno11

           See <https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>
           It  helps if not too many DLLs are loaded in memory so the available
           address space is larger, e.g.  stopping  the  MS  Internet  Explorer
           might help.

           +Use  the rebase utilities to resolve the conflicting dll addresses.
           The rebase package is included in the Cygwin  setup.  Use  setup.exe
           from <https://cygwin.com/install.html> to install it.

           1. kill all perl processes and run
              "</bin/find <dir" -xdev -name \*.dll | /bin/rebase -OT ->> or

           2. kill all cygwin processes and services, and run setup.exe.

       •   Miscellaneous

           File  locking  using the "F_GETLK" command to fcntl() is a stub that
           returns "ENOSYS".

           The Cygwin chroot() implementation has holes (it  can  not  restrict
           file access by native Win32 programs).

           Inplace  editing  "perl  -i"  of  files doesn't work without doing a
           backup of the file being edited "perl -i.bak" because  of  windowish
           restrictions, therefore Perl adds the suffix ".bak" automatically if
           you use "perl -i" without specifying a backup extension.

   Prebuilt methods:
       "Cwd::cwd"
           Returns the current working directory.

       "Cygwin::pid_to_winpid"
           Translates  a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may
           or may not be the same).

       "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"
           Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).

       "Cygwin::win_to_posix_path"
           Translates  a  Windows  path  to  the  corresponding   cygwin   path
           respecting the current mount points. With a second non-null argument
           returns  an  absolute  path.  Double-byte  characters  will  not  be
           translated.

       "Cygwin::posix_to_win_path"
           Translates a cygwin path to the corresponding cygwin path respecting
           the current mount points. With a second non-null argument returns an
           absolute path. Double-byte characters will not be translated.

       Cygwin::mount_table()
           Returns an array of [mnt_dir, mnt_fsname, mnt_type, mnt_opts].

             perl -e 'for $i (Cygwin::mount_table) {print join(" ",@$i),"\n";}'
             /bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode,cygexec
             /usr/bin c:\cygwin\bin system binmode
             /usr/lib c:\cygwin\lib system binmode
             / c:\cygwin system binmode
             /cygdrive/c c: system binmode,noumount
             /cygdrive/d d: system binmode,noumount
             /cygdrive/e e: system binmode,noumount

       "Cygwin::mount_flags"
           Returns the mount type and flags for a  specified  mount  point.   A
           comma-separated  string  of  mntent->mnt_type  (always  "system"  or
           "user"), then  the  mntent->mnt_opts,  where  the  first  is  always
           "binmode" or "textmode".

             system|user,binmode|textmode,exec,cygexec,cygdrive,mixed,
             notexec,managed,nosuid,devfs,proc,noumount

           If the argument is "/cygdrive", then just the volume mount settings,
           and the cygdrive mount prefix are returned.

           User mounts override system mounts.

             $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/usr/bin"'
             system,binmode,cygexec
             $ perl -e 'print Cygwin::mount_flags "/cygdrive"'
             binmode,cygdrive,/cygdrive

       "Cygwin::is_binmount"
           Returns  true  if  the given cygwin path is binary mounted, false if
           the path is mounted in textmode.

       "Cygwin::sync_winenv"
           Cygwin does not initialize all original Win32 environment variables.
           See         the         bottom         of         this          page
           <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html>   for  "Restricted
           Win32 environment".

           Certain Win32 programs called from cygwin programs might  need  some
           environment variable, such as e.g. ADODB needs %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%.
           Call  Cygwin::sync_winenv()  to copy all Win32 environment variables
           to your process and note that cygwin will warn on every encounter of
           non-POSIX paths.

INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
       This will install Perl, including man pages.

         make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install

       NOTE: If "STDERR" is redirected "make install" will not  prompt  you  to
       install perl into /usr/bin.

       You may need to be Administrator to run "make install".  If you are not,
       you must have write access to the directories in question.

       Information  on  installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be
       found in the INSTALL document.

MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
       These are the files in the  Perl  release  that  contain  references  to
       Cygwin.   These  very  brief notes attempt to explain the reason for all
       conditional code.  Hopefully, keeping this up to  date  will  allow  the
       Cygwin port to be kept as clean as possible.

       Documentation
            INSTALL README.cygwin README.win32 MANIFEST
            pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
            pod/perldelta.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod pod/perl56delta.pod
            pod/perl561delta.pod pod/perl570delta.pod pod/perl572delta.pod
            pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perl581delta.pod
            pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
            pod/perltoc.pod Porting/Glossary pod/perlgit.pod
            Porting/updateAUTHORS.pl
            dist/Cwd/Changes ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Changes
            dist/Time-HiRes/Changes
            ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/README ext/Compress-Zlib/Changes
            ext/DB_File/Changes ext/Encode/Changes ext/Sys-Syslog/Changes
            ext/Win32API-File/Changes
            lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Changes lib/ExtUtils/Changes
            lib/ExtUtils/NOTES lib/ExtUtils/PATCHING lib/ExtUtils/README
            lib/Net/Ping/Changes lib/Test/Harness/Changes
            lib/Term/ANSIColor/ChangeLog lib/Term/ANSIColor/README

       Build, Configure, Make, Install
            cygwin/Makefile.SHs
            ext/IPC/SysV/hints/cygwin.pl
            ext/NDBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
            ext/ODBM_File/hints/cygwin.pl
            hints/cygwin.sh
            Configure             - help finding hints from uname,
                                    shared libperl required for dynamic loading
            Makefile.SH Cross/Makefile-cross-SH
                                  - linklibperl
            Porting/patchls       - cygwin in port list
            installman            - man pages with :: translated to .
            installperl           - install dll, install to 'pods'
            makedepend.SH         - uwinfix
            regen_lib.pl          - file permissions

            plan9/mkfile
            vms/descrip_mms.template
            win32/Makefile

       Tests
            t/io/fs.t             - no file mode checks if not ntsec
                                    skip rename() check when not
                                    check_case:relaxed
            t/io/tell.t           - binmode
            t/lib/cygwin.t        - builtin cygwin function tests
            t/op/groups.t         - basegroup has ID = 0
            t/op/magic.t          - $^X/symlink WORKAROUND, s/.exe//
            t/op/stat.t           - no /dev, skip Win32 ftCreationTime quirk
                                    (cache manager sometimes preserves ctime of
                                    file previously created and deleted), no -u
                                    (setuid)
            t/op/taint.t          - can't use empty path under Cygwin Perl
            t/op/time.t           - no tzset()

       Compiled Perl Source
            EXTERN.h              - __declspec(dllimport)
            XSUB.h                - __declspec(dllexport)
            cygwin/cygwin.c       - os_extras (getcwd, spawn, and several
                                    Cygwin:: functions)
            perl.c                - os_extras, -i.bak
            perl.h                - binmode
            doio.c                - win9x can not rename a file when it is open
            pp_sys.c              - do not define h_errno, init
                                    _pwent_struct.pw_comment
            util.c                - use setenv
            util.h                - PERL_FILE_IS_ABSOLUTE macro
            pp.c                  - Comment about Posix vs IEEE math under
                                    Cygwin
            perlio.c              - CR/LF mode
            perliol.c             - Comment about EXTCONST under Cygwin

       Compiled Module Source
            ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/Makefile.PL
                                  - Can't install via CPAN shell under Cygwin
            ext/Compress-Raw-Zlib/zlib-src/zutil.h
                                  - Cygwin is Unix-like and has vsnprintf
            ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL - Special handling for Win32 Perl under
                                    Cygwin
            ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs    - tzname defined externally
            ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c
                                  - EXTCONST needs to be redefined from
                                    EXTERN.h
            ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
                                  - binary open
            ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
                                  - Cygwin has syslog.h
            ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/compile.pl
                                  - Convert paths to Windows paths
            ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.xs
                                  - Various timers not available
            ext/Time-HiRes/Makefile.PL
                                  - Find w32api/windows.h
            ext/Win32/Makefile.PL - Use various libraries under Cygwin
            ext/Win32/Win32.xs    - Child dir and child env under Cygwin
            ext/Win32API-File/File.xs
                                  - _open_osfhandle not implemented under
                                    Cygwin
            ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.c
                                  - __declspec(dllexport)

       Perl Modules/Scripts
            ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm - Comment about stderr/stdout order under
                                     Cygwin
            ext/Digest-SHA/bin/shasum
                                  - Use binary mode under Cygwin
            ext/Sys/Syslog/win32/Win32.pm
                                  - Convert paths to Windows paths
            ext/Time-HiRes/HiRes.pm
                                  - Comment about various timers not available
            ext/Win32API-File/File.pm
                                  - _open_osfhandle not implemented under
                                    Cygwin
            ext/Win32CORE/Win32CORE.pm
                                  - History of Win32CORE under Cygwin
            lib/Cwd.pm            - hook to internal Cwd::cwd
            lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Platform/cygwin.pm
                                  - use gcc for ld, and link to libperl.dll.a
            lib/ExtUtils/CBuilder.pm
                                  - Cygwin is Unix-like
            lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm - Install and rename issues under Cygwin
            lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm    - OS classifications
            lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm - Example for Cygwin
            lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
                                  - require MM_Cygwin.pm
            lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm
                                  - canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
            lib/File/Fetch.pm     - Comment about quotes using a Cygwin example
            lib/File/Find.pm      - on remote drives stat() always sets
                                    st_nlink to 1
            lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm - case_tolerant
            lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm - preserve //unc
            lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm - References a message on cygwin.com
            lib/File/Spec.pm      - Pulls in lib/File/Spec/Cygwin.pm
            lib/File/Temp.pm      - no directory sticky bit
            lib/Module/CoreList.pm - List of all module files and versions
            lib/Net/Domain.pm     - No domainname command under Cygwin
            lib/Net/Netrc.pm      - Bypass using stat() under Cygwin
            lib/Net/Ping.pm       - ECONREFUSED is EAGAIN under Cygwin
            lib/Pod/Find.pm       - Set 'pods' dir
            lib/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm - '-c' switch for pod2man
            lib/Pod/Perldoc.pm    - Use 'less' pager, and use .exe extension
            lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm - Cygwin terminal info
            lib/perl5db.pl        - use stdin not /dev/tty
            utils/perlbug.PL      - Add CYGWIN environment variable to report

       Perl Module Tests
            dist/Cwd/t/cwd.t
            ext/Compress-Zlib/t/14gzopen.t
            ext/DB_File/t/db-btree.t
            ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t
            ext/DB_File/t/db-recno.t
            ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t
            ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t
            ext/GDBM_File/t/gdbm.t
            ext/POSIX/t/sysconf.t
            ext/POSIX/t/time.t
            ext/SDBM_File/t/sdbm.t
            ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
            ext/Time-HiRes/t/HiRes.t
            ext/Win32/t/Unicode.t
            ext/Win32API-File/t/file.t
            ext/Win32CORE/t/win32core.t
            lib/AnyDBM_File.t
            lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t
            lib/Archive/Tar/t/02_methods.t
            lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t
            lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command.t
            lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Cygwin.t
            lib/ExtUtils/t/MM_Unix.t
            lib/File/Compare.t
            lib/File/Copy.t
            lib/File/Find/t/find.t
            lib/File/Path.t
            lib/File/Spec/t/crossplatform.t
            lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
            lib/Net/hostent.t
            lib/Net/Ping/t/110_icmp_inst.t
            lib/Net/Ping/t/500_ping_icmp.t
            lib/Net/t/netrc.t
            lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcyg.pod
            lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlcygo.txt
            lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaq.pod
            lib/Pod/Simple/t/perlfaqo.txt
            lib/User/grent.t
            lib/User/pwent.t

BUGS ON CYGWIN
       Support   for  swapping  real  and  effective  user  and  group  IDs  is
       incomplete.  On WinNT Cygwin provides setuid(), seteuid(), setgid()  and
       setegid().   However,  additional  Cygwin  calls  for manipulating WinNT
       access tokens and security contexts are required.

AUTHORS
       Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, Eric Fifer <egf7@columbia.edu>,
       alexander     smishlajev     <als@turnhere.com>,     Steven      Morlock
       <newspost@morlock.net>,  Sebastien  Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr>, Teun
       Burgers <burgers@ecn.nl>, Gerrit P.  Haase  <gp@familiehaase.de>,  Reini
       Urban  <rurban@cpan.org>,  Jan  Dubois  <jand@activestate.com>, Jerry D.
       Hedden <jdhedden@cpan.org>.

HISTORY
       Last updated: 2019-11-14

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