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Re: A guide to installing modules for Win32

by jaschwar (Acolyte)
on Jan 12, 2011 at 02:16 UTC ( [id://881801]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to A guide to installing modules for Win32

I wanted to add a few comments that may help those who are using win64 as there are few differences:
First is the easy part, to use the 64-bit potential of your machine use the 64-bit distribution:
5.12.2: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

Second, with nmake being 16-bit, you'll need an alternative. Dmake should work. Its link is here:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/
After unzipping, change the enviromential variable path to include the place where dmake.exe resides.
Replace nmake with dmake. So, after unzipping the module package.

$ perl Makefile.PL<br> $ dmake<br> $ dmake test <br> $ dmake install<br>

ppm will be installed with Active State distro.

MinGW compiler is here: http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml#hdr2
Hope that helps anyone trying to install modules on top of 64-bit Active State.

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Re^2: A guide to installing modules for Win32
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2011 at 07:57 UTC
    MinGW compiler is here: http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml#hdr2

    But mingw.org provide only a 32-bit compiler, and the 64-bit ActivePerl would need a 64-bit compiler, such as the one offered by the mingw64 project (a different vendor than mingw.org).

    And even then, in order to get this 64-bit compiler working with ActivePerl, I found it necessary to do some hacking to lib/Config_heavy.pl, lib/ActivePerl/Config.pm and lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm.

    You're right about dmake - however, I'm not sure that there's any problem with nmake itself.

    Cheers,
    Rob

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