A Guide To Installing Modules

The thing is that ppm isn't working properly on my computer. Or, at least it can't connect to the internet due to some proxy setting or firewall or whatever. I'm at work, that's why. Any other way to install MinGW?

Thanks, Samuel

it can't connect to the internet due to some proxy setting or firewall or whatever

From 'ppm help':

"http_proxy"
PPM uses LWP to access remote repositories. If you need HTTP traffic p
+ass via a proxy server to reach the repository, you must set the "htt
+p_proxy" environment variable. Some examples:

Using bash:
export http_proxy=http://proxy.mycompany.com

Using cmd.exe:
set http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy.mycompany.com:8008

See "env_proxy" in LWP::UserAgent for more.
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MinGW and dmake come with Strawberry Perl, so you can also get it that way. Or you could try your luck with the automated (MinGW 5.1.4) installer at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 (then you'll still need to grab dmake from CPAN).

The easiest way, imo, is to install MinGW with ppm (and that also gives you dmake). So I would first be trying to set the http_proxy environment variable as mentioned above.

Cheers,
Rob

I've recently started using Cava Packager which seems to work quite well.

Thanks for the tip. I tried it and it does work quite well. However, I have one problem with it. In my code I find out the current path by using the following command:

(my $path = $0) =~ s/\\^\\+$//;

This works fine in the ordinary script but when Cava has made an executable of it the path is equal to "-e". Anyone who knows a way to get the path that is consistent also after Cava has done its work?

Thanks!

Given that you are running the script under Windows you can:

use Win32;

my $path = Win32::GetCwd();
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which gives the current directory when the script is executed. That may not be the same as the directory containing the script of course.

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