Installing Perl Modules on a PC?

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Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by gube (Parson) on Aug 04, 2005 at 01:39 UTC
Hi, Please find the ppd file in the mentioned path and than try to install this ppd files through ppm. Extract the .ppd file having zip folder and install like this for eg: PPM> install E:\DBI\dbi.ppd http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2005 at 02:29 UTC
A Guide to Installing Modules A guide to installing modules for Win32 A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by rvosa (Curate) on Aug 04, 2005 at 01:47 UTC
Is it the __ftol2 call that fails? Maybe it works if you change the makefile to include the /QIfist switch.	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:29 UTC
Er, sorry, what `__ftol2`? There ain't nothing of the sort in Term::ReadKey /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:04 UTC
Bear in mind that the package name of Term::ReadKey is TermReadKey. /J\	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by Washizu (Scribe) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:40 UTC
Parent is 100% correct. From the command line, write. `ppm install TermReadKey` [download] That's it! ----------------------------------- Washizu Odd Man In: Guns and Game Theory	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by holli (Abbot) on Aug 04, 2005 at 07:33 UTC
If you just want to clone your home installation, copy the perl/html, perl/lib and perl/site/lib directories on your usb stick and from there over the fresh installation. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by blazar (Canon) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:44 UTC
I'm not really sure what the level of expertise/confidence with perl of the OP is, but to be safe it may be worth to remind him that if the modules to install comprise binary ones, then the two versions of Perl must be the same. Who knows? Maybe he has 5.6.1 at home and has installed 5.8.7 at his friend's...	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by rjsaulakh (Beadle) on Aug 04, 2005 at 08:56 UTC
I dont know how will u like my reply but i have tried this way once i find it difficult to install modules by standard methods what you can do is download the module copy nmake and nmake.err files into the module folder (after unzipping ) then type perl makefile.pl , nmake , nmake test , nmake intall please let me know if that helps u	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 09:00 UTC
This wont help with Term::ReadKey unless you have exactly the same version of the C compiler that was used to compile your Perl - see previous discussions on here, cpan testers and p5p in the past on this matter. /J\	[reply]
Re: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by hawtin (Prior) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:00 UTC
I had to do this today (new laptop running XP rather than Win 2000). Previously I had a 5.6 but I decided to move up to 5.8. What I found was that I needed to also set an environment variable to get `Term::ReadKey` to work for me. I set `TERM` to `dumb` in the System control panel and everything seems to be working again.	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules on a PC? by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:23 UTC
I'd be surprised by this, Term::ReadKey itself does not reference `$ENV{TERM}` at all and uses a lower level device interface (POSIX termios mostly, but the Console interface on windows) that doesn't need to know what the terminal type is, particularly on Windows where there is no real notion of varying terminal types. I can only assume that you are also using some other module that does care about the terminal type. Of course if you are convinced of this I would love for you to send me some test code that demonstrates this so I can work out what is going on and fix it. /J\	[reply] [d/l]


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