in reply to Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl

This is usually fairly easy (unless you get a module that requires you have a C++ compiler installed). Download the module and unzip it. Then, you grab nmake and install that (when you run nmake for the first time, it will create some files that you can just copy to a directory in your path. Once that's done, you can just follow the typical install:

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install

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Ovid

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Re^2: Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 10, 2007 at 07:24 UTC
    You make it sound so simple. - I have the module unzipped on my Desktop - I have nmake lying on my Desktop Where should these files go? Where should I execute the make commands? Please advise in a granular fashion. Best, wirefree
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