I recently downloaded and installed activeperl 5.28.1

I just grabbed the basic one (in the zip file) as I was interested to see whether they were building perl with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO. (They weren't.)
It was pretty much useless. I thought maybe I needed to run Installer.bat, but it failed because perl didn't have a requisite module installed.
I tried using cpan to install the missing module, but cpan fails early on with a "Free to wrong pool" error.
I tried installing the module using ppm, but ppm doesn't exist.
This one really amuses me: 
C:\>perl -V:cc
cc='undef';

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WRT my aims and the uses I have for perl, this distro is rubbish .... but maybe there's some documentation somewhere that explains how to turn it into something that I would deem useful.
Even if it can moulded into something reasonable, it's still not going to be any better than Strawberry.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1 by syphilis
in thread problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1 by expo1967

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