My condolences, I'm also forced to use perl on Win when not at work, but after some tinkering, its not that bad. A few pointers I wish I'd known long ago:
  1. The cpan module works fine on windows, try this: perl -MCPAN -e shell
  2. nmake really is awful from your point of view, it cant cope with some of the most basic make commands. If you can afford the ($$$|space), get Visual C.
  3. oh yeah, the cpan module sorts out unzipping and taring for you, so dont worry about that.

Hope these put you in the right direction,
SMiTZ

In reply to Re: Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl by smitz
in thread Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl by jlk

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