Problems compiling Perl on Cygwin and Microsoft's WSL

mpersico has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using homebrew to try and install Perl 5.26 on Cygwin and Microsoft's WSL, Ubuntu flavor. Both builds failed. The WSL had test failures, which isn't that bad, but during the tests, a debugger was started and that paused the build until I interacted with it. Cygwin has compile errors. Who gets the logs? Cygwin and Microsoft? The Homebrew folks? Do I report as an RT entry? Thanks

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Re: Problems compiling Perl on Cygwin and Microsoft's WSL by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 20, 2018 at 10:06 UTC
If you post how you're building (as opposed to just installing?) and the failures you get you may get some answered here. Beyond that check the queue to see if it's an existing issue. Otherwise review perlbug. Update: if by homebrew do you mean this? If so you seem to be mixing various systems, brew is for MacOS, Cygwin and Windows Subsystem for Linux run on Windows...	[reply]
Re: Problems compiling Perl on Cygwin and Microsoft's WSL by haukex (Archbishop) on Feb 20, 2018 at 08:48 UTC
Please see How do I compose an effective node title? It would be good if you could tell us a bit more. Where are the instructions you were going by / What steps did you follow? What are the exact error messages you got? etc. My feeling would be that simply sending someone the error logs will not get you all too far, normally digging a bit more and pinpointing the error and its possible origin will help. In my experience, before people provide free support, they'd normally like to get some kind of an indication that they won't be wasting their time.	[reply]