[Expectperl-discuss] Re: Expect.pm for Windows

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:14:16PM -0400, Ke...@sg... wrote:
> Hi Austin,
> 
> Is there any Expect Perl module for Windows platform? I would very
> appreciate your reply.
> 
> Thank you,
> 

	I've just successfully built this under cygwin and ran successful
tests with it, installing via CPAN using 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' and
"install Expect" command.

	There are a couple caveats:

	1. Your home directory must not have a space in it or CPAN will get
heavily confused. You can change this after running mkpasswd from the
cygwin shell by editing /etc/passwd.
	2. You have to install gcc with cygwin, because IO::Tty contains
C extensions.
	3. It doesn't appear to play nicely with native windows terminal
driven software, such as ftp.exe, though perhaps some amount of cleverness
could help. It seems to work fine with cygwin stuff, such as /usr/bin/ftp.

	hth,

	Austin