On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Sisyphus wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Sasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:42 AM > Subject: [Perldl] PDL w/ activestate perl? > > > > I've been trying to install Perldl with activestate Perl. It seems > > to require nmake > > Probably better off using 'dmake' which is freely available from CPAN. (Some > of the 'nmake' versions locatable on the web are fairly old - and may even > lack some functionality.)
Will the Perl make process detect that or the Mingw make? > > > and I found a copy available from a microsoft site > > it also requires a c compiler which I don't have > > Install (the freely available) MinGW compiler (it's a Windows port of gcc). I'd forgotten about that. Thanks > MinGW and dmake work fine with ActiveState perl-5.8.8 (and later). Building > PDL is then just a matter of running: > > perl Makefile.PL > dmake test > dmake install > > If you build PDL from source first install ExtUtils::F77. > thank you. > [snip] > > > > > I've looked on the Perldl website, and the Windows binary download > > says it is for perl-5.6.0, and I have 5.8.8 > > For 5.8.8 binaries, run (in order): > ppm install Astro-FITS-Header > ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/PGPLOT.ppd > ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/PDL.ppd ... ! Oh, I didn't know about ppm, thanks for that. I'll explore that further. > > You may find that PGPLOT is unusable (because of a bug in DynaLoader.pm). If Is that only the case iff I go the ppm route? > that's the case, and you want to make use of PGPLOT, let me know and I'll send > you a corrected DynaLoader.pm. (It's the DynaLoader.pm that's included in > ActiveState build 1002 if you want to track it down yourself.) thank you. I'll have to tackle this tomorrow now. > > Cheers, > Rob > Hugh _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
