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

My dear fellow Monks!

I just bought "Perl testing - A developer's Notebook" and now wish to install Devel::Cover.

Unfortunately it has XS-components and therefore needs a C-compiler to install. As I'm working on a Windows machine which is compiler-challenged, I fired up my ppm-program, but alas in none of the repositories I have linked to can it be found.

Does anyone of you know a repository which has a version of Devel::Cover available?

Update: Thanks all for the info. We will just patiently wait until perlmonk.org comes back on-line (and hope that they could recover the data from the old system). Checking the ActiveState site, it appears that this module only compiled without problems on "Darwin" and failed on all other systems. As all I know of installing compiled XS-modules is to invoke the magic incantation of make; make test; make install I will not hazard to go for installing a free C++ compiler and try it in this case as I will surely have no better results as the professionals!

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Devel::Cover in PPM?
by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Jan 21, 2006 at 23:44 UTC
[reply]
[reply]
Re: Devel::Cover in PPM?
by swampyankee (Parson) on Jan 22, 2006 at 01:12 UTC

    There are also free C compilers out there, including gcc, a command-line only version of their C++ compiler from Microsoft (it's included in one of their SDK's; I don't remember which one), and, if I remember, Borland. If you're going to do much with XS-components, one of these may be worth picking up.

    .

    emc

    " When in doubt, use brute force." — Ken Thompson
[reply]
Re: Devel::Cover in PPM?
by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2006 at 08:23 UTC
    Does anyone of you know a repository which has a version of Devel::Cover available?

    A quick Google search revealed a reference to one via the kobes CPAN search site. Unfortunately, it's only version 0.47 and it's in the crazyinsomniac repository, which is on at perlmonk.org, which was hosted by jcwren and is currently offline due to hardware failures.

    I submitted a request for it to the uwinnipeg ppm repository and hope they can make it available before too long.

    -xdg

    Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.

[reply]
      and is currently offline due to hardware failures

      That is probably why I couldn't find it!

      Thanks.

      CountZero

      "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

[reply]
Re: Devel::Cover in PPM? (0.55 now available on uwinnipeg)
by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 22, 2006 at 18:58 UTC

    Thanks to some very rapid turnaround from Randy Kobes, version 0.55 of Devel::Cover is available on the University of Winnipeg PPM repository.

    -xdg

    Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.

[reply]
      Thanks you (and Randy) very much!

      CountZero

      "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

[reply]

Back to Seekers of Perl Wisdom