Thanks. I tried to find it on CPAN and failed, but I'll look where you
said. I tried ppm, as Wagner-David said, and couldn't make ppm work either
:-( It returns:
C:\tmp>c:\perl\bin\ppm.bat
Can't locate PPM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/tmp/lib .) at c:\pe
line 21.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:\perl\bin\ppm.bat line 21.
It's a monster batch file which I might have a look at sometime...
jj
John Thayer Jensen, System Administrator
Commerce Computing, University of Auckland
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Poe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 9:27 a.m.
To: Jensen, John T; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Net::SMTP
--- "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;down
load=auto;stem=no;case=clike;site=ftp.funet.fi;age=;filetype=%20module%20nam
e;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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