Wonderful - I think this wraps up the issues for now and should enable me to nicely CM handle most of the environment (licensing is a separate issue obviously) and write some nice make scripts to bring up the build environment for the variants I need.
Thanks to you both, Jan/Gisle! ken1 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kenneth Ölwing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:09 PM Subject: Re: Advice on single (Active)Perl tree for multiple platforms? > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:02:45 +0100, Kenneth Ölwing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Hmm, ok - that might work, but for ActivePerl I'd use the AS style >>package; >>problem is the PDK. >> >>Are there similar options for the PDK msi, and if so what are they more in >>detail? Can I be sure that an msi installed in that manner won't mess up >>any >>existing settings in the registry (e.g. if I happen to have PDK 7 >>installed >>already)? Will it leave uninstall information behind (considering that the >>unpacking of it would be basically a transient thing, and when I'm done >>I'd >>just wipe the directory where it was installed. Etc... >> >>Failing all the above, is it possible to just scavenge a 'real' PDK >>installation and zip up the whole or part of the tree? If I can just take >>bits and pieces what would be essential (considering just PerlApp)? Seems >>to >>me the PDK install is pretty benign so this might be the easiest route >>perhaps... > > Yes, you can just ZIP up the PDK install directory and prune it to the > files you need. > > For PerlApp on Unix this is probably just > > bin/perlapp > lib/pdkcheck-5.x > > For PerlApp on Windows you need > > bin/perlapp.exe > bin/lib/pdkcheck.exe > bin/lib/pdklib.dll > bin/lib/perl58.dll > > You should be able to move the files anywhere as long as you keep the > lib directory at bin/../lib on Unix and at bin/lib on Windows. > > You will also need to install the PDK license on your build machine > under your build account. > > Cheers, > -Jan > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
