Excellent node: ajt++

This is very timely for me, as I have been using ActiveState Perl for hobby projects at home. This was brilliant in the beginning, and I was able to get started very quickly and extend Perl with PPM.

However, I'm writing much more of my own stuff now, and I have the C++ compiler, and I am running into trouble when I try and build modules under AS. The CPAN and CPANPLUS autoinstaller b0rks in a quite inconsistent way.

To fix this I have installed the cygwin shell, but ASPerl still uses Ms-dos to run commands.

I might have a go at building Perl from scratch using Cygwin. Is this recommended or should I just download the binary? Ideally I would prefer to play with building my own, as I could also have bleadperl available alongside.

In reply to Re: Has anyone compared Cygwin Perl to AS Perl? by rinceWind
in thread Has anyone compared Cygwin Perl to AS Perl? by ajt

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