--- "Jensen, John T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed Active PERL 5.6 on two machines here, one NT4, one W2K. I
> want to use the Net:SMTP module, which is nicely described in the help
> files, but the module itself is not there in either installation. Can
> anyone help me here?
>
> jj
>
> John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator
> Commerce Computing, University of Auckland
John,
One way to handle this is to download the Net::SMTP module from the CPAN (you may have
to
cut-n-paste this URL):
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_perl/cpan-search?join=and;arrange=file;download=auto;stem=no;case=clike;site=ftp.funet.fi;age=;filetype=%20module%20name;modinfo=5270
Once on your box, decompress all of the files in a temp folder using WinZip or
something similar
that can handle .tar.gz files.
Then, download nmake.exe from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe. This is
a
self-extracting executable that will extract the necessary files to run nmake. For
simplicity's
sake, I would extract them into the temp folder that you extracted Net::SMTP.
Open a DOS prompt and CD to the temp directory. Once there, enter the following
commands:
perl makefile.pl
That will create a file that nmake will use to build Net::SMTP.
nmake
That starts the whole show.
nmake test
That runs all tests that have been included with Net::SMTP. Read through the output
very
carefully as that will alert you to any problems. If all is well, you can then do:
nmake install
That will install Net::SMTP and you're ready to roll. You can follow this procedure
to install
most CPAN packages that you don't find on PPM.
Side note: After extracting nmake, I usually rename nmake.exe to 'make.exe' (without
the quotes)
and copy that and the other extracted files to a directory in my path. From then on,
you can
follow the traditional module installation method without regard to where nmake is:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
If you leave the name as 'nmake.exe', just change the commands above from 'make' to
'nmake'. I
prefer to rename it to 'make.exe' as this is the command name on unix-like systems.
Cheers,
Curtis Poe
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