Req Help to install IPC::SysV on WinXP + ActiveState Perl

[feltra]

Hi,

First off, hope this is the right place for this question (or at least
its not the wrong place).

Am trying to understand how to use Shared memory in ActivePerl -
unfortunately AP doesn't seem to support it in its built-in libs.

Trying to download and install IPC::SysV thru CPAN (using ppm) gives
"OS unsupported error". I tried this both from the Cygwin-bash shell
(in which i usually work) and also from the MS-Command window - same
error. The shell displays the envar "OS" as Windows_NT.

My PC config in brief:
HP(Compaq) AMD Athlon LE-1640, 2.41GHz, 1.87G RAM
running MS-WinXP 2002 SP2

I have been able to successfully install ActivePerl and run several of
my programs, so I don't think it's anything to do with Perl per se.

How do I make this package (IPC::SysV) available? OR Should i be
using some other Shared-memory package? What would it be?

Kindly help with any / all pointers, or if more info is needed, please
indicate.
Advance thanks for all the help...

Best Regards,
-feltra

 

[Steve C]

Hi,

First off, hope this is the right place for this question (or at least
its not the wrong place).

Am trying to understand how to use Shared memory in ActivePerl -
unfortunately AP doesn't seem to support it in its built-in libs.

Trying to download and install IPC::SysV thru CPAN (using ppm) gives
"OS unsupported error". I tried this both from the Cygwin-bash shell
(in which i usually work) and also from the MS-Command window - same
error. The shell displays the envar "OS" as Windows_NT.

My PC config in brief:
HP(Compaq) AMD Athlon LE-1640, 2.41GHz, 1.87G RAM
running MS-WinXP 2002 SP2

I have been able to successfully install ActivePerl and run several of
my programs, so I don't think it's anything to do with Perl per se.

How do I make this package (IPC::SysV) available? OR Should i be
using some other Shared-memory package? What would it be?

Kindly help with any / all pointers, or if more info is needed, please
indicate.
Advance thanks for all the help...

To the best of my knowledge, Windows XP is not a SysV operating system.
The shared memory API that I know of in Windows is shared memory-mapped
files. You might have a look at Win32::SharedFileOpen.

 

[feltra]

To the best of my knowledge, Windows XP is not a SysV operating system.
The shared memory API that I know of in Windows is shared memory-mapped
files.  You might have a look at Win32::SharedFileOpen.

Thanks for the response, Steve. You are right. I also know that
WinXP is not SysV OS, but I was hoping that someone had implemented
IPC::SysV for WinXP. Turns out it is not. All I wanted was to use
Shared memory in ActivePerl, and (as you rightly said), the packages
Win32::MMF and Win32::MMF::Shareable (already available in
Activestate) seems to be the way to go... I am studying those now...

Thanks a lot once again & Best Regards,
-feltra