Re: Re: Installing perl modules on remote server

CPAN.pm does in fact work in Windows. It seems to me that CPAN.pm will successfully figure out how to open up and install most (if not all) pure perl packages on Win32.

For modules that have compilable pieces, however, you will need Visual C++ and the appropriate INCLUDE, LIB, and PATH set up.

Since ActiveState's ppm repository is a little stale, this is a very good way to get modules if you already have a copy of Visual C++. I wish CPAN modules were more compatible with MinGW instead though -- at least that is free :)

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Re: Re: Re: Installing perl modules on remote server by bfdi533 (Friar) on Feb 06, 2004 at 20:21 UTC
Well, that is all fine and good but the command given above does not do anything for me on either linux (perl 5.8.0) or win32 (perl 5.6.1 active state build 631). All I get is the command prompt back. See (win32): `C:\Data\Scripts>perl -mCPAN -e "shell" C:\Data\Scripts>perl -mCPAN -e "shell" C:\Data\Scripts>` [download] Ed	[reply] [d/l]