perlboy88 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi!

First time here so be gentle :)

I need to build win32:lanman to work with the latest Strawberry version which is 5.10. It currently supports up to version 5.8

It can be found here: http://cpan-du.viaverio.com/authors/id/J/JH/JHELBERG/ (version lanman.1.0.10.0.zip)

If anyone can do it for me and just send me the package to install I would be forever grateful, if not, maybe someone can send me clear instructions on how to do that on a Windows XP machine.

Assume I'm a complete idiot (which is not far from the truth...) Thanks!
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Re: Build win32:lanman for Perl 5.10 (Strawberry flavor)
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 08, 2008 at 01:10 UTC
    Best chance of success is to build it for perl 5.10 using Visual Studio. It looks to me that it's one of those ghastly source distros that have been put together to be built specifically with Visual Studio and nmake.

    There's the added problem that MinGW doesn't come with the header file lmdfs.h (which is needed to build the extension from source).

    A Win32::Lanman built using Visual Studio will work fine on Strawberry Perl, but you might have to wait until someone builds a 5.10 ppm - unless you can find one somewhere already (which I couldn't). I did notice that there are Win32::Lanman ppm's for 5.6 and 5.8 available at the bribes repository. Perhaps try asking that rep's maintainer about the possibility of a 5.10 ppm package becoming available. (You'll find his email address at the bottom of http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppmdir.html.)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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