Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42962D86.1030409@familiehaase.de> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:11:50 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George CC: Cygwin List Subject: Re: How to install perl modules? References: <429459BF.7070803@ieee.org> <20050526065141.GB988@home> In-Reply-To: <20050526065141.GB988@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes George wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:55:59AM +0100, Jason Pearce wrote: > > >>Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure environment >>variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it will fail. (You >>might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes). >>Also be aware that you may have trouble building some modules that use C >>code and have not been ported to Cygwin, mainly OS modules like WIN32. >>Straight Perl modules should just work out of the box, and CPAN will get >>all pre-requisites for you too. You'll never want ppm again! > > > Sorry to go off on a slight tangent here, but is there any documentation > anywhere that describe which Win32 modules are problematic, as it's most > likely that for Cygwin users the Win32 modules are of particular > interest, no? And installing both Cygwin's Perl and ActiveState's > distribution can offer a less than satisfactory solution as it presents > its own set of problems. There is an up to date version of libwin32 as well as Win32CORE included in the perl distributed, it *should* be possible to build some (not all) of the Win32 modules, though I have not tried to build much of them. Just try one or another if it is not already included with libwin32. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/