Need help installing modules via Cygwin cpan

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to install modules via CPAN on Cygwin windows setup.. is there anywhere I can find a very detailed tutorial for beginners on how to do this? It keeps failing to find "make" or other errors that are probably easy fixes I can figure out with this documentation. Any ideas ? Obviously I googled Cygwin cpan help but could not find anything basic enough

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Re: Need help installing modules via Cygwin cpan by atcroft (Abbot) on Nov 30, 2016 at 03:50 UTC
It sounds like you should install the 'make' package (found under the 'Devel' category from the Cygwin installer tool). You may also need to install other items from the Devel category, such as 'autotools', 'binutils', and 'bison' (among others), and, depending on the module you are trying to install, other libraries as well. I did find a few tutorials by searching for cygwin compiling tutorial or cygwin compiling, which may be of use/interest to you. (This one looked especially interesting, at least to me.) Hope that helps.	[reply]

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Re: Need help installing modules via Cygwin cpan
by atcroft (Abbot) on Nov 30, 2016 at 03:50 UTC

It sounds like you should install the 'make' package (found under the 'Devel' category from the Cygwin installer tool). You may also need to install other items from the Devel category, such as 'autotools', 'binutils', and 'bison' (among others), and, depending on the module you are trying to install, other libraries as well.

I did find a few tutorials by searching for cygwin compiling tutorial or cygwin compiling, which may be of use/interest to you. (This one looked especially interesting, at least to me.)

Hope that helps.

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