I found the easiest way was to turn on the ‘Windows Subsystem for Linux’ - install Ubuntu from the Windows Store (noting this is not a VM) and then do ‘apt install pdl’ from the bash shell.
Karl > On 30 Nov 2018, at 5:30 pm, Derek Lamb <de...@boulder.swri.edu> wrote: > > After updating the install webpage for SciPDL I was looking at updates to the > instructions for other operating systems. Starting with Windows. I'm going > to include the not-so-new development that Strawberry Perl has a PDL-specific > edition. ActivePerl is another matter. According to > https://code.activestate.com/ppm/PDL/, recent versions of PDL have not been > built, or have not built successfully for Windows. Does anybody have any > familiarity with the reasons why? Our current webpage says to use the > sisyphusion.tk repos—that's fine and all, but why is that even necessary? > > I'm not familiar with the ActiveState way of doing things: could I (or, > preferably, somebody else with Perl on Windows experience) download the > Community Edition onto a Windows machine and try to diagnose problems, or is > all the compiling etc done on ActiveState's black box servers and the ppm > just downloads the results of the build to accomplish the install? > > thanks, > Derek > > _______________________________________________ > pdl-devel mailing list > pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel _______________________________________________ pdl-devel mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel
