From e85534acf2e6ecf86b70f1bb2400c18af6280226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emanuele Giaquinta Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:48:32 +0000 Subject: Merge README.cygwin in INSTALL. git-svn-id: http://svn.irssi.org/repos/irssi/trunk@4729 dbcabf3a-b0e7-0310-adc4-f8d773084564 --- INSTALL | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 41f1df56..3c602c70 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -101,3 +101,22 @@ command. It should print something like: Module Type Submodules ... perl static core fe + + + System specific notes + --------------------- + + Cygwin + +Getting perl scripting to work needs a few things: + + - configure with --with-perl-staticlib + + - libperl.dll is required in linking and running irssi, it's normally + located somewhere around /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin/CORE/libperl5_6_1.dll + copy it to eg. /usr/bin/libperl.dll + + - -DUSEIMPORTLIB is needed to be defined while compiling src/perl directory. + It doesn't hurt to be defined everywhere, so configure irssi with: + + CFLAGS='-DUSEIMPORTLIB' ./configure --with-perl-staticlib -- cgit v1.2.3