Re: installing CPAN modules with ActivePerl

[Aldo Calpini]

Bennett Haselton wrote:
> What is standard procedure for ActivePerl users to install a
> module from CPAN, if the module doesn't come with a .ppd file?
> I have ActivePerl build 623 of perl 5.6.0, on Windows 98.

build your own ActivePerl!
if you have Visual C++, download the AP623 source tree and compile
it. it's really easy, and the produced Perl will be able to
successfully download and compile the vast majority of CPAN modules
with the usual procedure (perl Makefile.PL, nmake, nmake test, nmake
install).


cheers,
Aldo

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RE: installing CPAN modules with ActivePerl

[bowman]

>A friend suggested getting cygwin32 (sort of a UNIX shell for Windows) and
>running their version of "make".  I tried that about a year ago and wasted
>two days on it before finding that cygwin32 doesn't work on Windows 9x.

Cygwin works on Win9x. You might try rewriting the make file in nmake
syntax.






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