Fellow Monks,

we develop our applications under the Linux OS plus take care that they run under all major UNIX derivates (HPUX,Solaris,AIX). However, a users infrastructure is often Win32, so we need to provide at least some functionality for this OS.

We sent an user one of the least complex programs we have: a command line client to connect to a NLP/NLU server. Unfortunatedly, the user is not able to even find two required modules: Term::ReadPassword and Term::Readline::Gnu (it seems for Win, modules are distributed as some ppm packages?).

I have read perldoc perlport but this covers the modules issue only marginally.

So we can detect the ability of Readline and scrap the history feature for Win32, so he could use the basic Term::Readline, but to solve this issue more generally, we'd need to know:

• whether there is somewhere a list of what modules are available under Win32.
• alternatively how do I provide a ppm-version of a module if I have it from CPAN (tar.gz)
• merlyn mentions the need for common sense beyond perldoc perlport in this node. What could that be? ;-)
• does/would cygwin help?

Please help a win32 analphabet.

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