Bioperl-guts: bioperl for windows?

[Osborne, Brian]

Zachary,

I believe you would have to do a bit of amending to make the code work, but
I think the answer is "yes". That's because ActiveState's Perl port (I am
assuming this is the one you're using, see www.activestate.com
<http://www.activestate.com>  if not) doesn't support all Perl's built-in
functions (see below for the list of those not available). Specifically, I
believe that alarm() will be called. I've gotten bioperl installed on NT,
but I haven't used Blast.pm. You can receive assistance from me and, I'm
sure, from others on this list on how to work around the alarm() call. Do
you have bioperl and/or perl installed?

Brian O.

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Functions for processes and process groups 
	alarm(), fork(), getpgrp(), getppid(), getpriority(), setpgrp(),
setpriority() 
Fetching user and group info 
	endgrent(), endpwent(), getgrent(), getgrgid(), getgrnam(),
getpwent(), getpwnam(), getpwuid(), setgrent(), setpwent() 
System V interprocess communication functions 
	msgctl(), msgget(), msgrcv(), msgsnd(), semctl(), semget(), semop(),
shmctl(), shmget(), shmread(), shmwrite() 
Functions for filehandles, files, or directories 
	link(), symlink(), chroot() 
Input and output functions 
	syscall() 
Fetching network info 
	getnetbyname(), getnetbyaddr(), getnetent(), getprotoent(),
getservent(), sethostent(), setnetent(), setprotoent(), setservent(),
endhostent(), endnetent(), endprotoent(), endservent(), socketpair() 


-----Original Message-----
From:	Zachary Mason [mailto:zmason@cs.brandeis.edu]
Sent:	Monday, September 27, 1999 5:20 PM
To:	vsns-bcd-perl-guts@lists.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject:	Bioperl-guts: bioperl for windows?


Hi all, 
  I'd like to be able to do a perl BLAST query from windows NT or 95.  I
know that bioperl's present incarnation is considered to be a UNIX only
pre-release, but would I have any chance of getting this functionality to
work on a windows platform?


thanks in advance,
Zachary Mason


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