If you have installed your AS Perl with the installation wizard, you are already very close to have CPAN working for you.

Now go out and get yourself a make-utility. I use the latest version of nmake.exe from Microsoft, but older versions work also (most of the time, unless the module tests exceed a large (?) number, in which case it crashes; the newer ones are buried deep inside the SDK-files). Unpack it and put all 3 nmake-files in \perl\bin.

Now start a DOS-window and type cpan. Answer all the questions (I think I used all the default answers) and you're up-and-running!

This will work with all pure Perl modules. If there is any to-be-compiled component, then you will have to install a C-compiler suite. I use MinGW. It's free and AS Perl automatically recognizes it.

This set-up will install and compile most of the CPAN modules. Some refuse however and then I either use PPM or I'm out of luck.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In reply to Re: Installing modules in ActivePerl by CountZero
in thread Installing modules in ActivePerl by vit

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