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Where can I download Threaded Perl 5.8 binaries for Win2000 (besides getting the source code and compiling locally). thank you, -sureshr
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Re: Where can I get Threaded Perl 5.8 binaries for Win2K?
by meetraz (Hermit) on Mar 11, 2003 at 17:39 UTC
      The current downloadable binaries at active-state does not seem to support 'threads'.
        What gave you that idea? I have all sorts of threaded apps running on perl 5.8 from ActiveState. Make sure you download 5.8 and not 5.6
Re: Where can I get Threaded Perl 5.8 binaries for Win2K?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Mar 12, 2003 at 06:08 UTC
    http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/

    I like what follows:
    Randy Kobes also does this, see ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/

    ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/README.html

    The main contents of this directory are self-extracting archives containing binary packages of Perl/Apache/mod_perl/mod_ssl/php for Win32. There are two main distributions.
    • Perl-5.8-win32-bin.exe, consisting of Perl-5.8.0 and Apache 2.0.43. See Perl-5.8-win32-bin.readme for details.
    • perl-win32-bin.exe, consisting of Perl-5.6.1 and Apache 1.3.27. See perl-win32-bin.readme for details.
    If you have trouble downloading the complete packages due to their size, the corresponding subdirectories Perl-5.8-win32-bin and perl-win32-bin contain these distributions split across multiple files (of around 3 MB each). See the file README.join in these subdirectories for instructions on how to join these files.
    You gotta love having bleeding edge apache/mod_perl ;D


    MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
    ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

Re: Where can I get Threaded Perl 5.8 binaries for Win2K?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 11, 2003 at 19:06 UTC