[rt.cpan.org #65052] Cannot create ADODB.Connection object under Cygwin

[email protected] ("Reini Urban via RT") Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:57:00 -0500

Newsgroups	perl.libwin32
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Wed Feb 08 12:56:59 2012: Request 65052 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RURBAN
       Queue: Win32-OLE
     Subject: Cannot create ADODB.Connection object under Cygwin
   Broken in: 0.1709
    Severity: Important
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: 0
      Status: resolved
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65052 >


Second patch attached, for the preferred version to copy the whole ENV 
when someones requests use Win32.
We don't want the full ENV in pure cygwin, only on use Win32.

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Reini Urban

0001-initialize-cygwin-on-use-Win32-with-full-ENV-for-ADO.patch (text/x-patch, 697 B)

From 043609d47bfadc9ff3000f77df24d4dc891739d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reini Urban <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:49:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] initialize cygwin on use Win32 with full ENV for ADODB

---
 cpan/Win32/Win32.pm |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cpan/Win32/Win32.pm b/cpan/Win32/Win32.pm
index d37352a..c6c6121 100644
--- a/cpan/Win32/Win32.pm
+++ b/cpan/Win32/Win32.pm
@@ -560,6 +560,10 @@ sub _GetOSName {
 local $^W = 0;
 bootstrap Win32;
 
+# On cygwin copy the whole ENV for certain win32 programs, 
+# e.g. ADODB needs %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%
+Win32::SyncCygwinWin32Env() if $^O eq 'cygwin';
+
 1;
 
 __END__
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1.7.5.4