Perl with MQSeries on NT

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

Hello all. I'm attempting to write one or two utilities to help manage MQSeries Integrator (yes I know it's been renamed...) and figured Perl would be favourite. Develop on Windows, roll out on Unix is the idea... Anyway my Perl is rather rusty and I need the practice! So, I downloaded the MQSeries Perl support from CPAN and then got stuck - the install instructions are for Unix and don't help me on Win2K. If anyone has managed to get the MQ Perl support working on Win NT/2K I'd be delighted to hear from them! A real idiot's guide would be handy... FWIW I have MS Visual C++ 6.0, as I have a feeling some bits need compiling. Thanks in advance - Cliff

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(z) Re: Perl with MQSeries on NT by zigdon (Deacon) on Feb 13, 2003 at 17:43 UTC
I have had no luck trying to compile the MQSeries module on AIX (using gcc) or on solaris (using gcc). I don't have a Windows compiler, so I haven't tried that. That said, I'd love to get the module to work. There's so much I want to do on MQ, and using external programs to communicate with the queues is very limiting. Please do report if you manage to get it to work! -- zigdon	[reply]
Re: (z) Re: Perl with MQSeries on NT by CliffG (Novice) on Feb 14, 2003 at 08:26 UTC
Have a look at www.mqseries.net in the API support section - you'll see a thread I started about MQ,Perl and AIX that might help you. As for Windows, I don't know which bits to compile, whether they should be expressed as a dll or an exe, etc etc. Just a big 'don't know', really... Surely someone out there has managed this? If I find the secret I'll certainly post it here! Cheers - Cliff	[reply]
Re: Perl with MQSeries on NT by ash_w (Initiate) on Apr 07, 2003 at 16:00 UTC
I know its a while since this was posted but just incase.. We've been using the perl MQ libraries on NT and Solaris for about 5 months without too many problems. Its while since I compiled these (with MS VC++) but as far as I can remember it was just the same, except using nmake rather than make.	[reply]