Steffen Goeldner wrote: > Romulo Goncalves wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My name is Romulo (INS-1) and I am trying to create a windows >> installer with Perl. My colleagues told me that you are the Perl >> expert in MonetDB... >> >> To compile PERL I did: >> >> install perl in C:\perl_5\ >> and unzip the sources in same directory as MonetDB SQL MONETDB5 .... >> (The same steps as we should do for php} >> >> In the MonetDB\conf\rules.msc I added: >> >> PERL_SRCDIR = $(TOPDIR)\..\..\perl-5.8.8 >> PERL_INSTDIR = C:\perl-5 >> # for these, also see configure.py >> PERL_EXTENSIONDIR = lib\perl5 >> >> Note: I am compiling for M5 and sql from cvs branch. >> >> For the compilation I set the flag HAVE_PERL=1. >> >> Everything compiled. >> >> Now I need to know which files I have to add to the installer. >> I was looking for a perl lib in cliens\NT\lib\ and It does not have >> such lib. >> >> Could you help me a bit please? > > First and foremost, let me admit that I did not find > time to implement the new protocol (8) yet - thus the > perl modules may not work for M5 (at least the pure > perl (MapiPP) client). > > Anyway, this has nothing to do with the installation > procedure. > > In the spirit of Perl’s motto, "There’s More Than One Way > To Do It" (TMTOWTDI), there are many perl modules in > clients/src/perl: > > - Mapi.pm is a simple pure perl client, maintained by CWI > and works (AFAIK) with the current protocol > > - MapiLib (in Cimpl) is a wrapper around libMapi and you > need SWIG to build it > > - The modules in MonetDB-CLI* are maintained by me: > > - MonetDB::CLI::MapiPP is pure perl > - MonetDB::CLI::MapiLib is pure perl but uses MapiLib > - MonetDB::CLI::MapiXS is a XS (that is: C) wrapper > around libMapi > - MonetDB::CLI is a simple loader for one of the > MonetDB::CLI::* modules above > > - DBD::monetdb (in DBD) is a DBI client on top of MonetDB::CLI > > In general, you install a perl module in the following way: > > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > make install To do this I have to use cygwin which takes too long and it cannot be used for windows 64 bits. Do you know the steps for native compiler (nmake)?
Regards, Romulo > > In this way, perl saves you from all the drudgery. > > Installing by hand is easy for pure perl modules (though > not recommended): simple copy all *.pm into your perl > lib directory. Example (MonetDB::CLI::MapiPP): > > MonetDB-CLI-MapiPP/MapiPP.pm -> /perl/site/lib/MonetDB/CLI/MapiPP.pm > > (assuming /perl/site/lib is in the lib search path - try 'perl -V' > and look for @INC and PERL5LIB. Later, if you try to load > MonetDB::CLI::MapiPP, perl replaces '::' with '/', adds .pm and looks > in every path from @INC.) > > However, installing an extension module (XS or SWIG) is difficult! > Perl builds additional files (e.g. .dll) which have to be installed > into different places. Best you call the standard 'make install' from > the installer or at least watch what 'make install' would do. > > > Regards, > Steffen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
