in reply to how to install perlmodules in windowsXP

If you're using the latest ActiveState perl, you can install the MinGW compiler (http://www.mingw.org) and dmake (http://search.cpan.org/~shay/dmake-4.7-20061120-SHAY/) and then build using 'dmake' instead of 'nmake'.

A better option (imo) is to install Strawberry Perl (http://vanillaperl.com/), as it comes with both dmake and the MinGW compiler already installed for you.

These are not the only options - but they are (imo) the simplest.

Cheers,
Rob
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Re^2: how to install perlmodules in windowsXP
by veeruch (Sexton) on Mar 05, 2007 at 15:20 UTC
    Hi Rob
    i copied the dmake to c:\perl\bin and installed mingw
    but how to inter link these two?.
    While iam using dmake it is showing
    dmake: Error: -- `C:\Perl\libConfig.pm' not found, and can't be made
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      You just need to add the mingw\bin folder to the path environment variable.

      Does 'C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm' exist ? If it's not there, then you're perl is incomplete. You won't be able to build anything if Config.pm can't be found. ActiveState builds of perl always come with Config.pm ... so you should have it - if you are, in fact, running ActiveState perl.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        hi Rob,
        I have added the path mingw\bin.
        C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm is also there.
        but the same error showing
        dmake: Error: -- `C:\Perl\libConfig.pm' not found, and can't be made

        insted of C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm
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