You might see whether the MKS Toolkit perl distribution (http://www.mks.com/) will support the necessary ops. They do have very unix-like make and shell (C and Korn) environments. Just my 2c - just a perl non-power user. Peter Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Marc Lehmann writes: > > (Also there are different ports of perl to win32). Basically, it requires > > somebody who just loves win32 and perl to check it out ;) > > Well, I can't say I love Win32, but I do like Perl ;-) When I tried > (must have been a year ago, I think) the first hurdle was porting the > Gtk Perl module. As I don't know much about building Perl modules on > Win32, I gave up. (In a cygwin environment, it probably is as simple > as on Unix, perl Makefile.PL etc, but in a "pure" Win32 environment, > d'oh.) > > I could try again... > > --tml