From: Rodrigo > Oops, ok, sorry, I thought you had Strawberry. Last year I swapped all things "Active" for Strawberry Perl. > > In any case, maybe you can tinker with the ActivePerl cpan Config.pm so that it uses the MinGW compiler and the Strawberry cpan settings. The > idea would be to make ActivePerl compile its modules using the Strawberry config settings.Don't know if that would work. > > Another way (if don't want to switch to strawberry flavored perl) is to just install Strawberry, then edit your PATH and strip off all c:\strawberry\... > directories so that it won't disturb your ActivePerl installation. Then create a little bat file that will give you a "strawberry prompt". Install modules with > strawberry cpan, then copy them from strawberry\perl\site (and auto) into ActivePerl's \site directories.
I've tried to use Strawberry Perl, but I've seen that I can't install some modules on it. I needed to install MIME::Tools by downloading the package manually, and doing perl Makefile.PL, dmake, skip dmake test and do only dmake install, because I couldn't do it using cpan. On the dmake test, it freezes on a certain test. I also couldn't install DBD::mysql, even though I've also tried without cpan, because on dmake it gives some errors I don't understand, even though I've added all those directories which perl Makefile.PL needs. I have also tried to install WxPerl with it, but without success. I've seen that the ppm it uses seems to be either very old or a different kind than that used by Activeperl because it seems to have less features. From this point of view, Perl is not a very good language for Windows because it is hard to adapt the modules that work fine under other systems. Octavian
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