To build the module from source, you need a C compiler. If you don't have a C compiler, ask someone nearby who does (and who has activestate's perl) if they will build it for you. That error message says "I couldn't find your C compiler".

If you do have Microsoft's Visual C/C++ installed, then you need to first run the batch file "vcvars32.bat" in the same console window in which you're going to try building the package.

Microsoft does offer a zero-cost command line compiler these days, but I don't know the details of how one builds packages for activestate with that compiler.

Another alternative, and probably your best bet, is to find a place where someone else has already compiled Crypt-DES for you and is offering the files out for others. To find such places, google for "Crypt-DES.ppd" and take note of the results. Once you find such a place, you can add it to your ppm3 with a command similar to: 

rep add webpub http://perlpack.webpub.net/

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(To take the first google hit) - then, you can install Crypt-DES as you would normally.

Note that this last option is equivalent to running some binary that you just found "out there" on the internet, with all the security craziness that implies.

--
@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/;
map{y/X_/\n /;print}map{pop@$_}@/for@/

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In reply to Re: Crypt::DES on windows by fizbin
in thread Crypt::DES on windows by karschsp

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