The following was posted on the perl-xml mailing list by randy kobes:

With the beta release of ActivePerl-5.8, I've set up a Win32 repository at

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

which should be compatible. Right now this has a few mostly xml-related modules not available from

http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/5.8-windows/

(which is already quite extensive). One can install these packages either as:

C:\> ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/whatever.ppd

or, from within the ppm shell, by setting the repository to

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58

XML::LibXML, and friends, relies on XML::LibXML::Common, which contains a needed libxml2 dll. A post-install script should be run when installing this asking you where you want libxml2.dll placed, but if this doesn't work, you can grab XML-LibXML-Common.tar.gz from

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/

and extract the dll from there.

Using this repository may not work with self-built perl-5.8s, as ActiveState sets the NAME of ARCHITECTURE in the ppd file to MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8, to distinguish it from that of perl-5.6, which isn't binary compatible with 5.8. In such cases, what you could do is grab the .ppd and .tar.gz files, adjust the architecture name to match your own, and then adjust the path to the local .tar.gz file.

Please let me know if you have any problems using this repository, or if there's some package ActiveState doesn't yet have that would be nice to provide.

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There have been discussions in the past about getting binary modules into a repository when AS don't have the module, so now is another chance...!

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ajt