in reply to need help setting up an existing perl program in windows

See A guide to installing modules for Win32 for the easiest approach of using PPM (with ActiveState Perl).

Otherwise, you will need a C compiler matching the version your Perl installation was compiled with.

For example, Strawberry Perl comes with its C compiler suite included. For ActiveState Perl, you can install the C compiler from MinGW package by issuing the ppm MinGW command.

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Re^2: need help setting up an existing perl program in windows
by joetesta (Novice) on Apr 12, 2013 at 18:28 UTC
    Thanks Corion!

    hmm ppm MinGW gives me "Unknown or ambiguous command"

    I'm sorry I didn't mention that I did try ppm, like this in the beginning:

    ppm install Win32-API
ppm install Win32

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    But that didn't resolve this issue. I try ppm search Win32::Printer and there is nothing found, I try ppm search Win32 and there are many items displayed but none that have "Printer" in the name

    So it seems I am still stuck here.

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      hmm ppm MinGW gives me "Unknown or ambiguous command"
      How about ppm install MinGW -- you neglected to include the command.

      Update: Missed that parent was just following instructions listed. Nothing to see here.

      --MidLifeXis

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        Error: Package 'MinGW' not found. After I saw that, I tried what Corion had posted, literally 'ppm MinGW'

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