Sys::Syslog module problem

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I've tried running perl with ActivePerl, Apache/Perl, niPerl, PXPerl and SiePerl on Windows 2000 and I get this error:

>perl -w swatcher.pl
Can't locate Sys/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/perl/lib C:/perl/perl /site/lib .) at swatcher.pl line 54.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at swatcher.pl line 54.

How do I solve this?

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Re: Sys::Syslog module problem by aukjan (Friar) on Jul 01, 2005 at 07:04 UTC
Sys::Syslog is a frontend to the syslog command on Unix.... So it would not make much sense to use this on a Windows machine... Hope this makes it more clear.	[reply]
Re^2: Sys::Syslog module problem by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2005 at 07:05 UTC
Correct, but he doesn't even have Sys::Syslog installed.	[reply]
Re^3: Sys::Syslog module problem by aukjan (Friar) on Jul 01, 2005 at 07:19 UTC
And that is also correct.. This module should not be installed on a Windows machine. (and probably won't but I can't verify that since I don't use Perl under windows.)	[reply]
Re: Sys::Syslog module problem by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Jul 01, 2005 at 08:02 UTC
...so you could create a module Syslog.pm containing the `sub syslog {}` - i.e. a dummy. One world, one people	[reply] [d/l]
Module Install Problems With Windows by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2005 at 07:48 UTC
Thanks guys! I now have dummy functions in syslog.pm, which solved the problem: `sub syslog {} sub setlogsock {} sub openlog {} 1;` [download] I installed other modules required by swatcher and applied the same method where the program gave a similiar error about a module. The code, of course, needed to be worked on after this. Had to comment out lines and fix things.	[reply] [d/l]