I am trying to install GUI Loft in my Win2K machine but it keeps telling me that it cannot find the Win32 module I have just recently installed ActivePerl 5.8.0.806.

When I look at the perldocs for Win32 it tells me that "The Win32 module is not part of the Perl source distribution; it is distributed in the libwin32 bundle of Win32::* modules on CPAN. The module is already preinstalled in binary distributions like ActivePerl."

According to the perldocs WIN32 should be a part of the libwin32 bundle that is included in the binary from ActiveState. PPM recognizes that libwin32 is there.

When I query the module in PPM I get : 

ppm> query libwin
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.0.806)
1. libwin32 [0.20] A collection of extensions that aims to provide com
+prehensive access to the Windows API.

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When I do a tree on Win32-GUI-Loft in PPM I get : 
ppm> tree Win32-GUI-Loft
====================
Win32-GUI-Loft 0.17
|__Win32 0.171 -- package not found; skipping tree
|__Win32-GUI 0.0.558
\__Win32-GUI-AdHoc 0.01
|__Win32 0.171 -- package not found; skipping tree
\__Win32-GUI 0.0.558

====================

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I noticed that Win32-GUI-Loft seems to be looking for Win32 0.171 yet if I try : 
C:\>perl -e "use Win32; print $Win32::VERSION"

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it returns : 
0.20

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Anybody have any ideas? I'm so confused....................

Edit by tye, CODE tags only around non-prose

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