This is a collection of modules stolen from the Activeware port
and modified so that they will build under MakeMaker using perls
greater than 5.003_99 and Visual C++.  If you only have 5.003_99, you
will need to apply the supplied patch to the perl5.003_99 sources.
Read the instructions at the top of the patch file, apply it,
rebuild perl and install it before attempting to build these extensions.

The following extensions have been "ported":

    Win32/EventLog
    Win32/File
    Win32/FileSecurity
    Win32/NetAdmin
    Win32/NetResource
    Win32/Registry
    Win32/Service
    Win32/WinError

All of the extensions have been re-engineered to use the XS
interface language (and are hence in pure C).  Working on these
has become a rather unpleasant task due to what I consider to be
poor design and implementation of these modules.  While I have
tried to keep my changes compatible with the originals at the
present time, I plan to rework these modules radically once there
is full port of all the Activeware extensions.

Building:

    + You need to extract this into an NTFS file system (the
      tests in the FileSecurity module and Net* modules will
      fail otherwise.)
   
    + You need MS Visual C++ (NetAdmin needs ver. 4.0+, ver. 2.0
      should suffice for the others).
   
    + perl Makefile.PL
   
    + nmake
   
    + nmake test					[optionally]
   
    + nmake install

I hope this kickstarts the process of bringing the divergant Win32::
extensions back into the MakeMaker fold.

The following modules available in the Activeware port are not
available in this one:

    Win32/ChangeNotify
    Win32/IPC
    Win32/Mutex
    Win32/OLE
    Win32/Process
    Win32/Semaphore

Of these, OLE is almost done (I haven't debugged a few problems yet).
The others are waiting on the availability of the CPerl object core
perl.

Suggestions, patches, rewrites and additional ports of modules welcome.

 - Sarathy.
   gsar@umich.edu
   07-MAY-1997