----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hadar Levi" <[email protected]>
To: "Chris Marshall" <[email protected]>; "Avishalom Shalit" 
<[email protected]>; "Sisyphus" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Perldl] perldl on windows


> Thanks everyone for the help.
> I finally managed to install it using this page:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=Installing_PDL_on_Windows

That page could do with a bit of an update .... by someone who has the 
permissions to do it. Apparently I don't, even though I think I've edited 
that page in the past (and I was logged on). I get told:

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:
The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: 
editor, admin.
You can view and copy the source of this page:

I think we can change all references to "PDL-2.4.3" to simply "PDL".

And we need to add another 'ppm install' command to ensure that the ppm 
package for OpenGL that gets installed is from the uwinnipeg repo (not 
ActiveState). The uwinnipeg PDL package assumes a statically linked OpenGL 
build (as provided by the uwinnipeg ppm package), whereas the ActiveState 
OpenGL package is dynamically linked.

So, on that wiki, the source should read:

################################
For perl 5.8:
<pre>
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/PGPLOT.ppd
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/OpenGL.ppd
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/PDL.ppd
</pre>

Or for perl 5.10:
<pre>
ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/PGPLOT.ppd
ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/OpenGL.ppd
ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/PDL.ppd
</pre>
################################

Hadar, does running the test script at
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CHM/PDL-2.4.6/t/opengl.t
work ok for you ?

There currently is no 5.12 uwinnipeg repo, and I'm not sure that the owner 
(Randy Kobes) has plans to create one .... I must find out about that.
If he's not going to provide a 5.12 repo, we might be able to get one of the 
other well known repos (eg Bribes or Trouchelle) to host the PDL binaries.

Cheers,
Rob




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