How can I get ActivePerl to play nicely with cygwin's screen?

Question

I would like to use cygwin tools (screen) for development and invoking ActiveState Perl debugger from cygwin environment throws the following error.

bash-3.2$ perl -d test.pl
The system cannot find the path specified.
Unable to get Terminal Size. The Win32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo call didn't work. The COLUMNS and LINES environment variables didn't work. The resiz
e program didn't work. at F:/Perl/lib/Term/ReadKey.pm line 362.
Compilation failed in require at F:/Perl/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 64.
 at F:/Perl/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 64
        Term::ReadLine::Perl::new('Term::ReadLine', 'perldb', 'GLOB(0x18e2e0c)', 'GLOB(0x1883e14)') called at F:/Perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 6073
        DB::setterm called at F:/Perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 2237
        DB::DB called at testReliance1.pl line 2
Attempt to reload Term/ReadLine/readline.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at F:/Perl/lib/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 64.
END failed--call queue aborted at testReliance1.pl line 64.
 at testReliance1.pl line 64
bash-3.2$

I couldn't find any workaround for this.
Tried to use cygwin perl distrubution,but compiling perl modules under cpan is nightmare for me as most of them won't compile and don't have in-depth knowledge to fix compiler errors.

Providing a fake terminal for debugger may work but no idea about feasibility and how to proceed.
Please suggest if there is any workaround for this.

Answer 1

From the "Environment" section of the Term::ReadLine documentation :

The environment variable PERL_RL governs which ReadLine clone is loaded. If the value is false, a dummy interface is used.

As a workaround until the incompatibility is sorted out, you can disable Term::ReadLine with

bash$ PERL_RL=0 perl -d test.pl