I guess PPM was installing my perl modules in another temp directory

PPM uses a temp directory to store files that it downloads, prior to actually installing the module. I think the location of that temp directory is configurable - in any case, it doesn't matter where that folder is located, so long as PPM is permitted to create the files in that folder.

Afaik, the actual location into which PPM installs the modules cannot be configured - they simply go into perl/site/lib (as Anonymous Monk has already said). The only things that should be going into perl/bin are the 2 DLL's - unless, of course, you requested that they be placed elsewhere.

What happens now when you run: 
perl -MMath::GSL::Histogram=":all" -we "gsl_histogram_alloc(100);"

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For me, that runs and terminates without producing any output at all (which is as expected).

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: How to install Math::GSL module by syphilis
in thread How to install Math::GSL module by Niner710

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