Re: Problems installing Win32::Printer Module

in reply to Problems installing Win32::Printer Module

Ah, I see. I knew it wasn't just me :P, haha. Well I downloaded the module zip and have the files but can you please tell me how to build/install them?

Thanks for all your guys help! =)

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Re^2: Problems installing Win32::Printer Module
by davidj (Priest) on Jun 22, 2004 at 00:54 UTC

for a fairly detailed explanation. The guts of it is as follows. After unzipping the module zip file:
1) go to the directory where it was unzipped
2) perl Makefile.PL
3) make
4) make test
5) make install

The most troublesome part for most people is finding a make utility. If you have visual C++ installed you are in luck, as it comes with nmake. If you do not, you can download the dmake utility

. In these cases simply substitute nmake or dmake for make in the above instructions.

Or, if you have cygwin or MinGW installed on your windows machine, you can use their make utilities.

Finally, it's not as complicated as it may appear :)

davidj

update:It was kindly pointed out to me that there is a good tutorial at the Monastery for installing modules. You can find it here:

A Guide to Installing Modules

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom