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

Hello, I'm sort of a novice at installing perl modules. I'm on a Vista PC. I have Active Perl 5, and it works ok. I have Maple 12. And I saw that there is a perlmaple..

So I'm down loading all these tar files from CPAN and I have winzip and everything is unpacking.

C:\Users\pcusername\Documents\PerlMaple has:

Make-1.00
PerlMaple-0.06
Test-Deep-0.103
Test-NoWarnings-0.084
Test-Simple
Test-Tester

then I get to:

perl Makefile.PL
perl -I. pmake
perl -Mblib pmake test
perl -Mblib pmake install
And I can get perl Makefile.PL to run, but the perl -I. pmake doesn't work

C:\Users\pcusername\Documents\PerlMaple\Make-1.00>perl -I. pmake Reading Make.pm Reading C:\Users\pcusername\Documents\PerlMaple\Make-1.00\makefile Cannot recurse Make - no target C:\Perl\libConfig.pm in C:/Users/pcusername/Document s/PerlMaple/Make-1.00 at Make.pm line 454.

so obviously I have placed the new stuff in the wrong place

perl is installed at C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

and there is a PATH variable that describes this location.

So I think I just need to know where to put all the new stuff before I try to nmake, pmake, make, etc.

Help. Thanks!

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Re: installing modules from CPAN.org
by fmerges (Chaplain) on Nov 19, 2008 at 14:05 UTC

    Hi,

    There is also Strawberry Perl, which works fine with CPAN.

    Regards,

    fmerges at irc.freenode.net
      Well said that man.

      But it doesn't stop there ... it is even better than AS perl, since it [Strawberry Perl] is bundled with GUN C compiler and make:-)) Self-evidently, the compiler is of most use when attempting to install modules having XS elements etc.

      That being said, it's worth it for make(1) alone - why bother with M$ nmake when you don't have to ?

      A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
Re: installing modules from CPAN.org
by svenXY (Deacon) on Nov 19, 2008 at 13:36 UTC