On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 00:50, Roey Almog (Infoneto Ltd) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
It doesn't always work from my experience. And some CPAN modules unfortunately need more than a C compiler. I encountered a module that needs awk, for example. There is awk for Windows and most likely it can be used with ActivePerl, but i find it much easier to install on Cygwin. Didn't try it on Strawberry. And there was also one module that needed a FORTRAN compiler, something related to PDL. Yet again, a FORTRAN compiler is much easier to install in a Unix-like environment. And sometimes you need libraries, like libhunspell or libreadline. It's all a matter of taste, of course, that's why they call it "flavor". > 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. ... Or that ActiveState didn't bother to pack a version of it for PPM, even though it could have been easily installed on Windows even without a C compiler. That's how the things were, when i last tried to run PPM in 2007. Maybe it improved since then. -- 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
