Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: > On 6/28/06, Hugh Lampert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem. Hate to impose on >> the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a >> good win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or other >> "environments"? the CPAN module was kind enough to download and install >> NMAKE from Microsoft itself (that was nice), when I upgraded it. > > Although it's somewhat like killing a mosquito using a shotgun, I > usually install the Dev-Cpp open-source IDE for Windows. It already > comes with everything you need to self-compile your modules > (GCC/MinGW, etc) and works out-of-the-box. It's not a big download > (8mb I think) so it's something pretty reasonable. OK, don't mean to sound like a whiner here, and I haven't spent any time investigating the various GCC packages, but it's making me laugh that it's been suggested I download a C++ development package just so I can get my perl modules to install. There's a couple of nice modules for SQLite that include the SQLite executable.... maybe it's wishful thinking but it sure would be nice if there was a GCC module that included a binary GCC and any required libraries and headers.
I know... I'm supposed to do that all myself, and I guess I will, but for now I just don't have time. I mean I only want to finish my small app. My boss is going to split his gut when I tell him first I need to download a C++ dev package so I can install the application framework that actually is written in perl. Looks like I'll be sticking to whatever Catalyst modules are available in PPM form for now. Not because I'm afraid of installing GCC, but because I can't imagine altering the roll-out environment to the point of installing UNIX emulation layers or C++ development packages just to put this app into production. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/