Carl Franks wrote: > You may want to look into Vanilla / Strawberry perl as an alternative > to ActivePerl. > It includes the mingw (gcc) compiler and nmake, and the perl included > is compiled from scratch with mingw, rather than ms compilers. > Thanks, I will look into this for my next project. I'm pretty married to ActiveState right now because its the flavor that's approved for production. I need to minimize the height of the waves I cause because I'm already on fairly thin ice for choosing Catalyst/Apache/Perl instead of ASP/IIS/.NET for this project. In other words my boss doesn't want to see any more development tool requests, he just wants the app rolled out already.
I still think I can bring the project home with the PPM's that are out there, and whatever I can get to work from CPAN that doesn't require complex compiling (unless this PAR thing works out). > > > On 29/06/06, Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Also, unless it's something absolutely necessary, I'd suggest you >> against deploying it in a Windows server. It's somewhat of a hassle to >> get mod_perl or FastCGI working correctly under Windows, the best I've >> got so far is running Catalyst under Apache::Registry, since mod_perl >> crashes when using PerlModule directives and I can't manage to even >> compile FastCGI and it's related Perl module and the built-in server >> becomes really slow if you need to support IE clients directly >> connecting thanks to the necessary -k switch. > > I use a binary fastcgi apache module which I downloaded from the > fastcgi website. > I can't remember whether I had problems compiling FCGI.pm - maybe > that's one of the few I had to get a PPM for. If you use PPM.pm, make > sure you add Randy Kobes' cpan mirror repository. > This looks positive, because strangely enough I have full control over whatever Apache gets installed in production. I will definitely look into fastcgi if there's a problem with mod_perl (which I was planning to use), when I get to a point beyond running the app on the development server. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/