With the reconfigure program CPAN installs modules that have no, or small amounts, C++ compiling required. That's not quite true, it installs those modules that only require the libraries that are already installed with the minGW distribution included in Strawberry Perl. So the comliling and linking could be extensive, but has to stay within these 'standard' libraries.

It also has problems with modules that have non-standard Makefile.PL scripts, especially ones that need extra command line arguments or hard coded file locations (eg. XML::Parser looks for eXpat in a version specific location on the C: drive, or requires flags passed to dmake). I also need to figure out if I need to incorporate the libraries from the Windows Platform SDK or Visual Studio (indications say yes).

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Perl-onna-Stick by Bloodrage
in thread RFC: Perl-onna-Stick by Bloodrage

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.