| Date: | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:03:07 -0500 |
| From: | Rocco Caputo <troc [...] netrus.net> |
| To: | poe [...] perl.org |
| Cc: | bug-POE [...] rt.cpan.org |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 fork+exec not supported error |
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:36:34PM +0100, Francis Turner wrote:
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> Started to play with the samples and got this fairly basic error when
> there is a POE::Wheel::Run
>
> MSWin32 does not fully support fork+exec BEGIN failed--compilation
> aborted at c:/Perl/site/lib/POE/Wheel/Run.pm line 63.
>
> This would seem to kill things dead for now since I rather wanted to do
> this.
I suspect fork+exec will work on some versions of Windows, but I won't
be able to tell for sure until I have an NT system set up. In the
meantime, you might try commenting out the MSWin32 check there.
I'm copying this message to bug-POE@rt.cpan.org so it can be tracked.
-- Rocco Caputo / troc@pobox.com / poe.perl.org / poe.sf.net