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You should add the pre-requisites that this module has (outside standard distro) to your Makefile.PL: 

WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'              => 'Term::Spinner',
    'VERSION_FROM'      => 'Spinner.pm',
    'PREREQ_PM'         => { Threads => V?, Threads::Shared => V?},
);

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This will let people know they need to download and install XYZ before they do the nmake test and have it choke...

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: got Term::Twiddle working on Win32
by icius (Sexton) on Feb 27, 2003 at 20:19 UTC
    Both Threads and Threads::Shared seem to be part of the standard 5.8 distro. I haven't tried this on any earlier versions.
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      They are not part of 5.6 so either require 5.8 or require Threads. Maybe 5.8 as threads were very experimental on 5.6.....

      cheers

      tachyon

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        I have ActiveState Perl 5.8, Build 805 on my system at work, and according to the thread documentation:
        Perl 5.6 introduced something called interpreter threads. Interpreter 
+threads are different from ``5005threads'' (the thread model of Perl 
+5.005) by creating a new perl interpreter per thread and not sharing 
+any data or state between threads by default.

Prior to perl 5.8 this has only been available to people embedding per
+l and for emulating fork() on windows.

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