Hi Monks,

Thanks to dragonchild I got put onto the virtues of Graph in a previous question of mine. I'm now wanting to expand its functionality with the use of Graph::Layout::Aesthetic which all sounds fine and dandy, just go grab it off CPAN, however I'm new to ActiveState Perl (which is what I'm on at the moment) and it seems to have a 'limited' offering of packages with their package manager PPM.

I can download the package from CPAN, but can't make it. I looked around and you can ahold of nmake from microsoft which got me part of the way there, but now I'm missing something called 'cl' (see, CC:cl in Makefile). This leads to a few questions,... Is the building of modules on Windows distributions of perl generally none transferrable? Is this a this particular package not made as OS independant as it could be? Is there a free version of 'cl' floating around that would allow me to build it myself?

Searching CPAN is came across PPM which allows you to make 'ppd' files from CPAN modules, which is what the ActiveState Package manager seems to like. The only thing is I can't make this from scratch either and it isn't offered as a Module from their master list that I can see?

Am I missing something or is getting packages ported to windows the bain of maintainers lives (yes, I know life would be easier on a linux box or something, but this is what I have to work with at the moment). Ideally, getting pointed to a ppd of the library I want would be the answer, but more generically being able to fold my own ppd's would be handy. Has anyone come across this before or can offer me some incite? I'm running perl 5.6.8.


Regards Paul

In reply to ActiveState modules by thekestrel

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