in reply to Re: Installing Javascript.pm on XP
in thread Installing Javascript.pm on XP

I was under the imression that an important aspect of Strawberry Perl was to free Windows users from having to rely on pre-compiled modules?

Not saying that using ppm is "wrong" or anything, just curious.

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Re^3: Installing Javascript.pm on XP
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2009 at 10:55 UTC
    I was under the imression that an important aspect of Strawberry Perl was to free Windows users from having to rely on pre-compiled modules?

    It is. The problem, SpiderMonkey doesn't build easy on win32/mingw, there are no binaries available, and you can't build JavaScript without SpiderMonkey.