Hi, Actually to work with CPAN modules using ActiveSate all you need is a C Compiler. Visual C++ will do the trick It has both nmake and C compiler, There is a free version for it (Visual C++ Express).
Anyway ActiveState has something called PPM that enables you to install pre-packaged/compiled Perl CPAN modules. from our experience if you cannot find a ready made PPM package for a module chances are you will not be able to use it on Win32. There are several PPM repositories more info here:http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=PPM_Repositories Regarding differences between Strawberry & AcitveState: ActiveState provide commercial support and some very interesting tools (PerlApp, PerlSvc PerlNET etc...) and try to make things simple (need a module just point and click....) Strawberry try to provide Win32 Perl programmers with UNIX Perl look and feel (make, make test, make install.... more or less) We use ActiveState mainly because of their ASPN subscription (online books, tools, IDE etc...) Roey On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 14:22, Chanan Berler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > thanks again....looks like i will be the only one around me who works with > > perl > > Promise, cross my heart to use strict this time :-) > > > > Never thought about it, am used to work with ActiveState...let me try > > workign with it... > > PS: is it all compatible ? then why are there 2 perl flavors ? > > > > It is designed to be *more* compatible with CPAN, if that's what > you're asking. I suppose that it's not any less compatible with > Windows than ActivePerl is. > > And that's also the reason for making another flavor - ActivePerl > wasn't compatible enough with CPAN. (That's how i understand it, feel > free to correct me.) > > And there are more than 2 flavors for Windows - there's also Cygwin, a > Unix-like working environment that runs on top of Windows (not a VM). > It includes bash, Perl, gcc and many more familiar tools from Unix. I > use it a lot, although it has its problems, too. > > -- > אָמִיר אֱלִישָע אַהֲרוֹנִי > Amir Elisha Aharoni > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
