Do you have Apache and mod_perl setup? If not, I would start by getting these installed and configured. For information on doing this, see the main mod_perl site. Assuming you have these setup, try the following:

All prerequisites for Apache::PAR can be installed via PPM. These include: PAR, MIME::Types, Archive::Zip, Apache::Test, Digest::MD5, File::Spec, and File::Path.

If you have "make" installed and CPAN setup, you should be able to install Apache::PAR with:

perl -MCPAN -e "install Apache::PAR"

If you do not have CPAN setup, Apache::PAR can also be installed manually by downloading the package and extracting the files (its a .tar.gz, so you might have to use WinZip or other program that can handle this type of archive.) Apache::PAR does not require a compiler, so once you have extracted the files, just put PAR.pm and PAR/* someplace in your @INC.

More non-Win32 specific Apache::PAR installation information can also be found in the tutorial.

BTW - I would like to get Apache::PAR included in the PPM list, either the main archive or the theoryx5 archive where mod_perl exists. Anyone know how to go about doing this?

Thanks,
techy (Nathan Byrd)