On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:30:50PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76.tar.gz > > MD5 (PAR-0.76.tar.gz) = 44e2565cb30d063f0eefd2a7d6e17dff > >People without a C compiler should also fetch the appropriate pre-built > >pardists from http://aut.dyndns.org/par/ -- currently only ActivePerl > >5.6.1 and 5.8.0 for Win32 are available. > So I fetched the pre-built pardist as noted. Now what do I do with it?
Note the "also" bit. You shall download this:
http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76.tar.gz
extract it into a PAR-0.76 directory, go to command line, and type:
perl Makefile.PL
nmake install
this is explained in the README file.
Makefile.PL will fetch the pre-built binary for you over CPAN.
However, you may also place the downloaded pre-built .par file
inside the PAR-0.76 directory, _then_ run perl Makefile.PL and
nmake install.
> I note that it sort of looks like the directory structure somewhat
> mirrors what is found in c:\perl or c:\perl\site ... and could maybe be
> extracted to there using my favorite unzip program, PowerArchiver ...
> but is there a preference or requirement for putting it in one or the
> other of the above?
You can, of course, just extract the directory structure into C:\perl\,
But installing with Makefile.PL is still recommended, particularily
because it takes care of the various prerequisites PAR needs.
> I note that the .par file references a /script directory and a /man1
> directory, neither of which exist in either mentioned directory on my
> installation of Perl ... should these be moved elsewhere?
Well, "script" will get installed to "C:\perl\bin", and "lib" is
usually installed into "C:\perl\site\lib". Windows needs no "man1".
Maybe pre-built PAR distributions should also contain a README that
explains the items above. Hmm...
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
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