in reply to problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1

I recently downloaded and installed activeperl 5.28.1

I just grabbed the basic one (in the zip file) as I was interested to see whether they were building perl with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO. (They weren't.)
It was pretty much useless. I thought maybe I needed to run Installer.bat, but it failed because perl didn't have a requisite module installed.
I tried using cpan to install the missing module, but cpan fails early on with a "Free to wrong pool" error.
I tried installing the module using ppm, but ppm doesn't exist.
This one really amuses me: 
C:\>perl -V:cc
cc='undef';

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WRT my aims and the uses I have for perl, this distro is rubbish .... but maybe there's some documentation somewhere that explains how to turn it into something that I would deem useful.
Even if it can moulded into something reasonable, it's still not going to be any better than Strawberry.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2020 at 09:00 UTC

    I tried installing the module using ppm, but ppm doesn't exist.

    Yuup , http://code.activestate.com/ppm/CGI/ says

    Notice! PPM is being replaced with the ActiveState Platform, which enhances PPM’s build and deploy capabilities. Create your free Platform account to download ActivePerl or customize Perl with the packages you require and get automatic updates.

    There are no packages listed for perls higher than Perl 5.24

    Although, platform.activestate.com...ActivePerl-5.28/customize does allow you to add a ppm package... but

    Dang, unable to build! We were unable to build the distributions for this project because... No version of language/perl Compress-Raw-Zlib satisfies dependency language/perl Compress::Raw::Zlib >= 2.92 (of requirement language/perl ActiveState-Utils == 2.11), requirement language/perl Compress-Raw-Zlib == 2.7.6

    Whatever

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      Even if it were to work as intended, it would still look to me like a very ill-advised business plan.
      It's not often that one comes across a free service that feels like it's overpriced ... but that's the feeling I'm getting with this.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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      All the more reason to use Strawberry with cpanm/cpan.

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