Building a module yourself is definitely not the right approach with Active State Perl. Trying to do so, can lead to lots of pain and grief.

The best way with Active State Perl is to use their ppm utility to install modules. Type ppm at the command prompt for the gui version, type ppm help to get help for the command line version. The modules are pre-built and "ready to go" for your platform. If any dependencies are required, ppm will install them.

The gui version of ppm is easier to use for most simple situations. The command line version has additional functionality but is harder to use.

Note that not all modules are contained in the main Active State repository. There are other repositories and ppm knows about them. Under Edit|preferences there is a way to add more repositories,. This of course slows the tool down a lot, but look real hard before trying to build a module yourself. Often if none of the well known repositories has the .ppd file for a module, that means that there is some problem getting it to work on Win32 systems. And if that is the case you just became a porter and will be spending a lot of time.

For IO-Socket-SSL, it is available via ppm. I just installed it and it needed Net-SSLeay on my machine which ppm automatically installed for me. This process was very easy and is definitely the way to go!

In reply to Re: Installing IO::Socket::SSL for ActiveState Perl by Marshall
in thread Installing IO::Socket::SSL for ActiveState Perl by AVanover5

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.