in reply to installing modules with XS on Windows 64-bit

I think this solves your problem. From the cpan shell: o conf make_arg -blarg -blarg

I'm a little surprised it doesn't default to it through the Config module. Perhaps it would help to build your own perl as well, or did you?

-Paul

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Re^2: installing modules with XS on Windows 64-bit
by Anonymous Monk on May 04, 2009 at 21:27 UTC
    The cpan shell gets stuck on "fetching with LWP" so I was downloading it, unpacking, etc. without cpan. Although I set the http_proxy variable, it still won't work. Using Firefox I don't have to type any kind of password to get out, so I'm at a loss.

    Is there a way to tell CPAN to use the tar.gz files I've downloaded already?

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      Unpack the dist, cd into it and "cpan ." It works on later CPANs.

      -Paul

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        Still no joy in Mudville, I'm afraid.

        It still tries to go online for authors/01mailrc.txt.gz. If I say "no", it continues with: 

        CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.26)
Alert: While trying to 'parse' YAML file
 'C:\Perl64\cpan\FTPstats.yml'
with 'YAML::XS' the following error was encountered:
  Usage: YAML::XS::LibYAML::Load(yaml_str) at C:\Perl64\lib/YAML/XS.pm
+ line 70.

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        That's trying to install the later ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

        —John

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