Does the supplier claim their package is portable?
How is it calling mkfifo? If through system you could get an mkfifo from Here (haven't tried that myself). It then depends on how it is using the 'fifo'. On UNIX a fifo is accessed using the ordinary file access commands, opened, read and written just as if it was a regular file (seek won't work though). On Windows there is a client-server model - for the server almost everything is different to UNIX (probably why POSIX::mkfifo is not implemented on Windows). The client can access the pipe as normal - except it actually does a Windows login. On Windows Named pipes are kernel objects - they do not persist after a reboot and they do not exist on a filesystem. On UNIX named pipes have an inode and survive a reboot (not that you ever need to reboot a UNIX machine you understand).

Some other IPC method needs to be used. Can we see how the fifo is being used?
Update: Looking at the source for Alvis::TreeTagger it appears to be UNIX specific - it has hard-coded UNIX style path names in. I don't know TreeTagger, but looking at the .pm code it looks like it just redirects stdin and stdout to named pipes. So (unless I'm missing something) you should be able to drive it using ordinary anonymous pipes, see perlipc.

In reply to Re: run TreeTagger in Windows by cdarke
in thread run TreeTagger in Windows by lilli

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