Thank you Paolo. That is helpful. I should have tried ppm and not sure why I didn't since I normally use it.
On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 11:24:21 PM UTC-6, sdnpol wrote: > > I now use Strawberry on Windows 10, but I still have some old pc with > ActiveState on them. In those case I install packages via PPM, and always > worked for me. I never used MinGW. > > -- windows > ppm install Mojolicious > ppm install Mojolicious-Plugin-Authentication > ppm install -f Mojolicious-Plugin-Authorization > ppm install DBI > ppm install DBIx-Connector > > Paolo > > 2017-10-18 6:52 GMT+02:00 Joel Berger <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > >> While I don't use Windows myself (hopefully someone else can give >> personal experience), I am curious about the problems that you see on >> ActiveState? Are you using CPAN.pm or are you using PPM ( >> http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Mojolicious/)? Can you post some output? >> I don't know how well CPAN.pm works on AS though I thought it had improved >> since Strawberry raised the bar. >> >> I don't think very many people (any?) use MinGW directly for their Perl, >> though maybe I could be wrong. >> >> When I do have to use Windows I use Strawberry, though probably the next >> time around I will be looking at WSL, assuming it have windows 10. WSL is >> going to become near mandatory for me to personally consider Windows jobs >> soon. >> >> On Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 10:03:14 PM UTC-5, Bryan wrote: >>> >>> I am curious to know if anyone has been successful installing with >>> ActiveState Perl on Windows. I messed around for quite a few hours today >>> trying to get it working. I installed MinGW and still no success. MinGW >>> is not a straightforward setup and "perl -MCPAN -e shell" never could find >>> gcc even though it was in my PATH. >>> >>> Interestingly, I installed Strawberry Perl and ran "cpan Mojo::DOM" and >>> it installed in seconds. Since Strawberry ships with gcc and make I am not >>> sure I'll ever need to go back to ActiveState Perl. But, I am interested >>> to know if installation is possible in the event I need to install it in >>> the future. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Mojolicious" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
