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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:11:50 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How to install perl modules?
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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
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