Hi Monks, I am using ActiveState Perl 5.61 build 631 on WindowsNT/Windows2000 for some time now. Sofar I am using various modules provided thru PPM for my home-projects.

However now I want to use a CPAN module which is not available thru ActiveState's PPM. The module is Net::FreeDB2. So I downloaded the tarbal from CPAN and extracted it to some tempdir. The readme says I should do:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

So I ran perl Makefile.pl. It complained about symbolic links which lines I removed and make it run OK.

Now I want to execute 'make', however I do not know of any make and neither is my PC (full search). How can I use CPAN modules within ActivePerl on WIN32??

Thanks in advance and kind regards

Gerard ter Haar

In reply to How to 'make' non PPM modules on WIN32? by gth

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