to fix your PPM/proxy issue, set the enviornment variable: HTTP_proxy to
your proxy, like: http://proxy.my.network.net
then PPM will work, worked for me!
Tim
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Tim Thomas
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Lockheed Martin EIS · Denver Data Center
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davies, Kenny A [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui] Installing Win32::GUI
>
> I have the same problem of getting through the proxy server so I cannot
> install modules from web sites, But I can still use ppm to install all of
> the modules I need.
>
> I create a local directory like c:\111 and I copy the perl modules into
> that
> directory remember to get both the .ppd and the .tar.gz files
> I then run ppm and try a search /location c:\111 and it will list the
> modules I've copied to the local directory.
> now just run install /location c:\111 PACKAGE NAME.
>
> to see all of the syntax you can type help install
> Hope this works
> -kenny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 5:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [perl-win32-gui] Installing Win32::GUI
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I run AS Perl 5.x on a Win95 box at work. The firewall prevents ppm from
> working
> properly, so when installing modules, I usually just take the *.pm
> files
> and stick them in the right directories. This has worked ok so far.
>
>
>
> With Win32::GUI though, I can't seem to get it to work.
>
> I copied the 3 *.pm files in the GUI module into perl/site/lib/Win32 and
> attempted to run hello.pl which comes in samples/. I got this error:
>
> Can't locate loadable object for module Win32::GUI in @INC (@INC contains:
> D:/Perl/lib D:/Perl/site/lib .) at samples\hello.pl line 8
>
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at samples\hello.pl line 8.
>
> Deep recursion on subroutine "Win32::GUI::AUTOLOAD" at
> D:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/GUI.pm line 317.
>
>
>
> I take the first line to mean that it can't find GUI.pm. But the last line
> is
> referencing GUI.pm, so obviously it can find it.
>
> Is this because I didn't install the module using Makefile.pl? I tried to
> do
> so,
> but am unsure what to do with the resulting makefile since I do not
> have
> "make" or a C compiler on this machine. How do Win32 users usually
> install
> modules other than by using PPM? I tried to access the precompiled
> binary
> from Jenda's site, but it was down (I assume this is since he joined
> the
> Czech army and so it will be down for the next year or so... on the
> other
> hand, I seem to remember some talk of a couple of other people
> maintaining
> the site while he is away... ?)
>
>
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Shawn
>
