I had a couple of questions about installing a module without using ppm. Or I should say when it's not available via ppm. I took time today to research this and figured out how to do it. At least it works for me. So I thought I would share it with the group. Im running Win2000, but would assume ;-( this will work on nt, possibly 95, 98. =============================================================== 1) First of all you have to install nmake. Go to link. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe 2) It is a small .exe file. Copy it somewhere in your C drive. 3) Launch a dos window, navagate to the directory where you downloaded nmake15.exe. Type "nmake15" (without the quotes). There are now three new files in the current directory: "nmake.exe", "nmake.err" and "readme.txt". The two files "nmake.exe" and "nmake.err" needs to be placed in a directory where windows will look for them if you (or a program) types "nmake" at the command line. One such place is the "system32" folder in the "WinNT" folder. Put the two files "nmake.exe" and "nmake.err" there. It seems they can be put in other alternative places too. If you right-click "My Computer" and then choose "Properties"->"Advanced"->"Environment Variables"->"System Variables"->PATH you should see a list of places where Windows looks for commands. 4) At this point extract the zip file to a folder. 5) In your dos window navagate to the folder where you extracted the zip file. 6) I installed DBIx::Recordset so I used. C:\Perl\DBIx\DBIx-Recordset-0.19-beta> 7) Then type perl makefile.pl 8) You will be asked a few questions concerning ADO, ODBC, and Proxy. When done with that type nmake. You should get something like: 9) Mkdir blib Mkdir blib\lib Mkdir blib\lib\DBIx Mkdir blib\arch Mkdir blib\arch\auto Mkdir blib\arch\auto\DBIx Mkdir blib\arch\auto\DBIx\Recordset Mkdir blib\arch\auto Mkdir blib\arch\auto\DBIx Mkdir blib\arch\auto\DBIx\Recordset cp Compat.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Compat.pm cp Recordset.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Recordset.pm 10) Then type nmake install 11) You should get something like. 12) Microsoft ® Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright <C> Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBIx\Compat.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBIx\Recordset.pm Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBIx\Recordset\.packlist Appending installation info to C:\Perl\lib/perllocal.pod IT NOW SHOULD WORK ;-) Anyone who tried this let me know if this was helpful. Allan. -- http://www.provide.net _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
