But now I have to install CPAN modules.

I did not find a pre-built PPM package for ActivePerl.
And It needs a compilation.

You can use MinGW (gcc for Windows) to install XS modules for ActivePerl, with CPAN. Really! I do it all the time.

Go to the download page, and download the installer, the first link. It's a file of about 140k. Run it. It'll download and install the packages you need.

You also need a make utility, which you already need when building plain utilities with CPAN. For XP, Microsoft's nmake works fine, but alternatively you can use dmake too, allegedly.

When ActivePerl detects that you have MinGW and don't have Microsoft's Visual C, it'll monkeypatch Config into using it for building modules instead.

In reply to Re^3: "Strawberry Perl" - can it live together with ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 (on WinXP)? by bart
in thread "Strawberry Perl" - can it live together with ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1003 (on WinXP)? by meorero

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