----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <inline@perl.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:10 AM Subject: simplified Inline::Java install?
> In coming months I'd like to deploy a solution for N>50 users, some of which simply want to use the solution, and are neither perl nor java experts. Hence would like to have a simpler install. > The prerequisite Inline module is simple since 'ppm install Inline' suffices (we assume a perl dist + HTTP_PROXY setup etc). > But Inline::Java requires: - > % perl Makefile.PL J2SDK=/your/java/dir > % make java > % make > % make test > % make install > > ..and most of our customers are on windows hence they'd also need to download nmake 1.5 for install to succeed. They'd also need a C compiler (which most of them probably won't have) to handle the XS components - JNI.xs, PerlInterpreter.xs and PerlNatives.xs. > > Of course we could supply Java Inline module directly but would rather not (versioning etc). Does that last condition mean that having the windows customers do a 'ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Inline-Java.ppd' (which would install Inline::Java-0.51on perl 5.8) is out of the question ? Or even distribute that ppm package so that Inline::Java-0.51 can be installed via a local 'ppm install'. Either way, there at least would then be no need for 'nmake' or the C compiler. (I'm assuming that a C compiler is not needed to *run* Inline-Java scripts. I think that's the case, but I'm not very familiar with the way Inline-Java works.) And you would also want to ensure that the ppm package worked correctly *irrespective* of the J2SDK location on the customer's machine. Anyway - basically just wanted to make you aware of the existence of that package in case you can make good use of it. Cheers, Rob
