The following blatherings have been on my homenode a while, for lack of a better place to put them.   This thread looks like a good home.   8^P
    cheers,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

Diary of a frustrated !(AS|PPM) Perl install on Win2k

1. Retrieve and install Siemens' precompiled 5.00503 binary for win32.
2. Edit d:\perl\5.00503\lib\MSWin32-x86\Config.pm to reflect installed drive letter if not default "C" (thanks to OeufMayo, Yohimbe)
3. Retrieve and install pmake.
   • perl Makefile.PL
   • perl -I. pmake
   • perl -Mblib pmake test
   • perl -Mblib pmake install
4. Copy Make.pm to d:\perl\site\500503\lib\
5. Install pure-Perl CPAN modules.
   • perl Makefile.PL
   • pmake.bat
   • pmake.bat test
   • pmake.bat install
   
   
   • Tie::IxHash - succeed
   • Net::Telnet - succeed
   • Term::ReadKey - <font size="-1">fail
   • Net::Telnet::Cisco - fail
6. Keep digging - shouldn't have to manually copy .pm files to d:\perl\site\500503\lib\ ?!
7. Continue pondering free(beer|speech) compilers for modules containing C/C++.
8. from crazyinsomniac, but I've not got this far:
   • MM_Win32 UNINSTALL= $(Perl)... line doesn't appear to be valid perl syntaxt...
   • The \"\" stuff and also multiple -e switches...
   • Replace the \"\" with qq()...
   • Make needs the \ at the end of the line...
9. Give up.   Install ActivePerl instead.
10. Try again later.   Maybe.   If I get bored and ambitious

Resources for compiling Perl from source on Win32.

• TPJ article by Nathan Patwardhan
• Gnu-win32 stuff from Mumit Khan
• make written in Perl
• libwin32-0.16 by Gurusamy
• libwin32-0.171patch by Gurusamy
• Directions for installing CPAN modules on Win32

Relevant nodes

• Outside Links
• Windows and source code
• (tye)Re2: Can't use Win32 Perl to FTP - no Net::FTP for Win32?
• PPM Trouble...help please!!
• Perl modules in Win32
• Installing DBI on Win32 with GCC 2.8.1
• Installing modules on Win32

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