Re^21: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003

(*)for AS1000, but the OP apparently had the same problem with AS1002?

No, I don't think he had the same problem. He said that at one stage he got:

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd
ppm install failed: The PPD does not provide code to install for this 
+platform
[download]

But what he was doing there was trying to install a 5.8 package into 5.10. PPM rightly refused to do that and gave the correct reason.

No mention of the required libraries on the generated build command despite that it knows that they are required

If the libraries do not get found at the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage then MakeMaker doesn't include them in the generated build command. (If they can't be found then including them in the command is only going to produce a "no such file" fatal error.)

Other than that, I think you've got it pretty right :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^22: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2008 at 23:59 UTC
If the libraries do not get found at the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage then MakeMaker doesn't include them in the generated build command. (If they can't be found then including them in the command is only going to produce a "no such file" fatal error.) Hm. But at least I'd know what it was looking for, could go look for them, tweak the `LIB` path in the environment and re-run the make. That's a far easier process than trying to a) figure out what libraries I should be looking for and then b) work out how to modify makefile.pl to have it either look in the right places or add the appropriate libpath, then c) re-gen the makefile, then d) see if it worked.... I just don't get the philosophy behind EU::MM. It turns the whole easy things easy, hard things possible upside down. Not so much OO, more like spagetti hoops :( Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^22: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2008 at 23:59 UTC

If the libraries do not get found at the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage then MakeMaker doesn't include them in the generated build command. (If they can't be found then including them in the command is only going to produce a "no such file" fatal error.)

Hm. But at least I'd know what it was looking for, could go look for them, tweak the LIB path in the environment and re-run the make.

That's a far easier process than trying to a) figure out what libraries I should be looking for and then b) work out how to modify makefile.pl to have it either look in the right places or add the appropriate libpath, then c) re-gen the makefile, then d) see if it worked....

I just don't get the philosophy behind EU::MM. It turns the whole easy things easy, hard things possible upside down. Not so much OO, more like spagetti hoops :(

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

"Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."

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[d/l]