Re: (2) Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens (!PPM for Perl on Win)

I'm tinkering with use of SiePerl as we speak, er type.

What I hope to get from it is Perl on my couple Win2k boxes - without the limitations of PPM and ActivePerl. Soon as I figure out dmake, nmake or such on Win2k, I should be able to use CPAN modules beyond those included in the distribution or available with PPM. 8^) I was about to embark on compiling Perl source, so this should save me some work.

But I see no reason to use it with OS's that already include Perl, like on my trusted Debian hosts.
    cheers,
    Don
    striving for Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

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Re: Re: (2) Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens (!PPM for Perl on Win) by rrwo (Friar) on Feb 20, 2001 at 01:12 UTC
I've gotten ActiveState to work with CPAN modules, but it takes a lot of tinkering and mixed results. Also, installation of Cygwin and few Unixish extras floating around like ncftp etc. The biggest problem I find is that some bleeding-edge module versions don't compile or they fail tests if they do compile with Visual C++.	[reply]