looks like HTML::Strip needs a compiler... (usually implied by the .xs and .c and .h files from the module download link on cpan.)

I recently tried out MinGW, and its worked superbly for every module I've tried installing so far.

I wrote this thread on Compiling modules for win32 ActivePerl based on that adventure.

If you want to go with MinGW, heres a checklist:
1. Get MinGW ppm install MinGW
2. Download the module from CPAN, and extract it into a folder somewhere. (Winzip can extract ".tar.gz" files)
3. Check that c:\perl\site\bin is in your windows environment PATH
4. Run perl -V:make and perl -V:cc, they should return make='dmake' and cc='gcc' respectively. (If they don't, then either MinGW didn't install properly, or Perl doesn't know about the MinGW installation.)
5. Then follow the standard mantra
perl Makefile.pl
dmake
dmake test
dmake install

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If running through the above checklist doesn't go smoothly, then there may be other issues specifc to your Perl installation, Perl version, PC environment etc. So this may be a pretty steep learning curve... Anyhow, once you get perl -V:cc returning cc='gcc' be aware that you'll need to rerun perl Makefile.pl as it creats a different file when cc='gcc' rather than the default cc='cl' for ActivePerl )

In reply to Re: Installing modules using PPM by desemondo
in thread Installing modules using PPM by Anonymous Monk

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