Re: Crypt::DES on windows

Compiling some of the modules can be a nightmare. Where did you get your compiler from?

Anyway, the Crypt-DES ppd does seem to be missing off ppm.activestate.com. However, you can install ppd's from any url directly, a quick google came up with the following link, WHICH YOU USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, sorry for the caps, but I've no idea if this is malicious.

# you can just install ppd like this...
ppm
install http://domain/a.ppd
[download]

Here's the dubious link... http://perlpack.webpub.net

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Re^2: Crypt::DES on windows by karschsp (Initiate) on Oct 13, 2005 at 14:36 UTC
Yeah, i had found another ppd for that module on another site, and got the same results as when i tried this one: "Error: no suitable installation target found for package Crypt-DES." So i downloaded the .ppd locally and edited the codebase href to point to my own webserver and then saved the ppd there. then ran (in ppm) install http://mywebserver/Crypt-DES.ppd and got the same error. so, what am i missing here? i have VC++...i guess i'll attempt to compile the modules. any other ideas are welcome! thanks for your help so far! steve	[reply]
Re^3: Crypt::DES on windows by randyk (Parson) on Oct 13, 2005 at 15:39 UTC
The error about "no suitable installation target found" generally means that the ppm utility found a ppm package, but it doesn't correspond to your version of perl (Perl-5.6 and Perl-5.8 aren't binary compatible, which is important especially for packages like Crypt-DES that have an XS component that needs compiling). For example, the packages on the perlpack.webpub.net site have, in the ppd file, an architecture of MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, which corresponds to perl-5.6 (ActivePerl 6xx builds). Since you're using an ActivePerl 8xx build (perl-5.8), this doesn't match the associated architecture of MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8. ActiveState removed many of their Crypt* ppm packages due to legal concerns. As noted elsewhere in this thread, some such packages are available in the uwinnipeg ActivePerl 8xx repository, including Crypt-DES. Having said that, if you have VC++, it would be worthwhile to set it up so that you can compile your own packages. However, if you're using ActivePerl, you should be using VC++ 6 (which is what ActivePerl is compiled with); if your version of VC++ isn't 6, you should probably compile Perl on your own and use that. The README.win32 file in the Perl sources discusses how to do this.	[reply]