Re: Downloading CPAN modules on WIndows....

Bloodnok is dead on. I use Activestate on Windows and use PPM to install my Perl modules. It now has a nice GUI front end and is rather simple.

If you insist on doing it a harder way, look at:

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Re^2: Downloading CPAN modules on WIndows.... by biswanath_c (Beadle) on Oct 14, 2009 at 13:04 UTC
Thanks for the reply I was trying to download the XML::LibXML module - but when I tried to run the command "perl makefile.pl", i got an error that asked me to first install libxml2. I then downloaded libxml2-2.4.12-1-lib from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/ but when i extracted the zip file, it was all .h files. What's the simplest way to compile them? or if not, what else should i do with them? :)	[reply]
Re^3: Downloading CPAN modules on WIndows.... by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 14, 2009 at 13:08 UTC
This is not a Perl problem. There should be a file "README" or "INSTALL", which describes how to build libxml2 on Windows in the zip archive. The easier approach is to use a binary that somebody already built for you instead.	[reply]