Workaround for cygwin perl 5.10 CGI

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Workaround for cygwin perl 5.10 CGI

Postby n8v » 08. April 2008 22:52

I've got Cygwin Perl 5.10.0 (experimental) installed, not the XAMPP perl add-on.

My CGI was failing because it couldn't find any of the perl libs. The apache error log said things like:


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[Tue Apr 08 12:27:41 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: markdown.pl
[Tue Apr 08 12:27:41 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 .) at C:/xampp/cgi-bin/markdown.pl line 5.
[Tue Apr 08 12:27:41 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/xampp/cgi-bin/markdown.pl line 5.


I found out that the @INC locations compiled into my perl all begin with /usr/lib, which is secretly some sort of magical link to c:/cygwin/lib instead of c:/cygwin/usr/lib.

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$ ls -1t /usr/lib|wc -l
139

$ ls c:/cygwin/usr/lib
[no files -- it's an empty directory]


Perl works fine from the cygwin shell but is borken when initiated by Apache.


So I wrote a script to convert the @INC to the appropriate windowsish paths for my shebang line:
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$ perl -e 'print join " ", map {s~/usr/lib~c:/cygwin/lib~;"-I$_"} @INC'
-Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 -I.




Now my shebang line is long but the CGI script works.


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#!C:/cygwin/bin/perl -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 -Ic:/cygwin/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 -I.

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Slurp;
use Text::Markdown 'markdown';
use File::Find;
use Data::Dumper;

etc...
n8v
 
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