in reply to How to install a module in XP

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.

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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
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      You may want to check that the DLL is located in the path. Your perl bin directory is probably in the path.
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