Re: Printing in ActivePerl 5.6.1 under Windows

Ah, bleh -- didn't see it. I figured the newest think they had was just an update for 5.6

I upgraded my Perl version and tried to install the module. Everything was going fine until It gives me the error -- "Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code." and the explanation "You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "C:\p4view\Apps\Gecko\MS I\data\ActivePerl\Perl\lib\CORE\perl.h""

I wonder why it asks for that file, happen to know what it is?

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Re^2: Printing in ActivePerl 5.6.1 under Windows by nightwatch (Scribe) on Jun 17, 2004 at 04:14 UTC
You seem to have a binary-only distribution, and you're trying to use a C compiler to install modules from CPAN. (I would guess you're using the standard "perl -MCPAN -e shell" idiom.) This would be the method under a Unix-like operating system with a readily available C compiler, but not under Win32 with a binary distribution. With ActiveState, you have a ppm utility. You can get more information about PPM here, but if you're familiar with the CPAN module it works nearly the same way. You should be able to install your printer module easily then. Hope this helps.	[reply]

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Re^2: Printing in ActivePerl 5.6.1 under Windows
by nightwatch (Scribe) on Jun 17, 2004 at 04:14 UTC

You seem to have a binary-only distribution, and you're trying to use a C compiler to install modules from CPAN. (I would guess you're using the standard "perl -MCPAN -e shell" idiom.) This would be the method under a Unix-like operating system with a readily available C compiler, but not under Win32 with a binary distribution.

With ActiveState, you have a ppm utility. You can get more information about PPM here, but if you're familiar with the CPAN module it works nearly the same way. You should be able to install your printer module easily then.

Hope this helps.

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