Jan Many thanks for this - I'll see if I can get a C compiler and install it with the fix. Note what you say about contacting the module author - if I can't get the fix to work I'll consider this.
Regards Eric. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Dubois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Error installing package with PPM and VPM > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:33:48 -0800, "Eric Robertson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I'm trying to install the package CDB_File on my Windows 2000 system where I have Perl build 633 installed as well as Komodo 2.5.1. > > > >When I try to instal using PPM (v2.1.6) I get the message "Error installing package 'CDB_File': Read a PPD for 'CDB_File', but it is not in > >tended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)". When I use VPM (build 76130 for Komodo) and search for this package it shows both versions 0.92 and 0.93 but when I try to install either I get the message that the ppd can't be found. > > > >I've also downloaded the zip for version 0.93 from http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/, unzipped it and then tried using PPM again but I get the same "not intended" message. > > > >Is it that the ActiveState ppd package is truly not suitable for a Windows 200 machine? If this is the case where can I get a suitable one? (I don't have a C compiler installed) > > Yes, it is not available on Windows because it doesn't compile there: > > http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2341 > > Please contact the module author if you think it is important that the > module works on Windows too. > > Cheers, > -Jan > > _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
