Hi Rick, Rick Brewer wrote: > Hi Ron, > I used the ActiveState version of perl which installed w/o > needing a C compiler.I installed DJGPP in order to install the > dateTime modules. > [snippage] > perl -V shows: > +++ > Compiler: > cc='cl.exe', ccflags ='-nologo -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE > -DNO_STRICT - ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is the problem, Activestate uses microsoft's c compiler to compile perl (5.6.1) you need to this complier when installing modules that require a C compiler.
you need to use the ppm utility that ships with Activestate in order to install the these modules. You can search the datetime archive to locate a depository for you version of perl. I hope this helps. Ron Hill