How to install a module in XP

NeilG has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: How to install a module in XP by ajt (Prior) on Nov 16, 2004 at 16:17 UTC
Neil, You will find that this question is one of the more common ones. Most Windows users don't have the right bits that you would expect in a proper operating system, so you are forced to rely on the good nature of other Windows users to compile and link code for you. You can compile yourself, only if you use the same compiler that ActiveState used. You can use PPM via a firewall, by configuring it up to use a proxy, or downloading the files by hand and then installing them locally. The following threads may prove useful: XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT ppd Modules in the Windows environment Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl CrazyPPM repository, interested? Win32 5.8 repository Installing Modules on Windows XP -- ajt	[reply]
Re: How to install a module in XP by nimdokk (Vicar) on Nov 16, 2004 at 15:44 UTC
You should be able to download the appropriate files from the ActiveState archives and then in ppm set your repository to a local directory inside your firewall.	[reply]
Re^2: How to install a module in XP by NeilG (Initiate) on Nov 16, 2004 at 15:51 UTC
Hi, yes I tried that but the module Encode:IBM is not listed in Activestate module list. I downloaded the module from CPAN. Putting this in a "local repository" that I added to ppm does not work as ppm can't see anything in the local repository. Regards, Neil	[reply]
Re: How to install a module in XP by inman (Curate) on Nov 16, 2004 at 16:20 UTC
Have you installed Visual C 7 (you appear to have the CD)? You should be able to do a limited install of the command line components and libraries by themselves (assuming that you don't want the IDE). Assuming that it is the same as previous versions, the install should make a BAT file called vcvars32.bat which sets up the environment for the command line tools. You can then use nmake, cl etc. to work with your CPAN module in the usual way.	[reply]
Re^2: How to install a module in XP by NeilG (Initiate) on Nov 16, 2004 at 19:01 UTC
Hi all, thanks it is working now I dowloaded from CPAN, compiled on a system with Visual Studio.NET 2003 installed using vsvars.bat to set the environment. This gave a DLL which manually copied to ..\auto directory and I copied IBM.pm to perl\lib\Encode\ Thanks Neil	[reply]
Re^3: How to install a module in XP by inman (Curate) on Nov 16, 2004 at 20:40 UTC
You may want to check that the DLL is located in the path. Your perl bin directory is probably in the path.	[reply]