in reply to ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected?

There are several, but it does depend on the modules you are downloading. You can go straight to CPAN and build and install them yourself. This is very easy for modules without a C (XS) component.

For those with C components then you *might* be able to use one of the free C compilers. For example MinGW from GNU, or even Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition. I have used both with ActiveState Perl (although not 5.6) however I do sometimes get runtime-library problems - and you will find more on perlmonks. Extensive testing is absolutly critical.

ActiveState use Microsoft Visual Studio 6, which has been unsupported for a long time, but maybe you can find someone in your organisation with a copy.

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Re^2: ActiveState Perl 5.6 package repository password protected?
by fwashbur (Sexton) on Mar 02, 2010 at 02:16 UTC

    Thanks, have an engineer trying to build from CPAN and running into problems. We are running MSVS 8. He is getting errors on the make: 

    C:\Tcl-0.84>make -i
/../"Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC/bin/cl" -c -I/../Tcl/i
+nclude -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DN
O_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
+ -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG   -DVERSION=\"
0.84\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.84\"  -I\..\Perl\lib\CORE  Tcl.c
Tcl.c
link -out:blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll -dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug
+ -opt:ref,icf  -libpath:"\..\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86
Tcl.obj   \..\Perl\lib\CORE\perl56.lib \..\Tcl\lib\tcl84.lib -def:Tcl.
+def
   Creating library blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.lib and object blib\arch\au
+to\Tcl\Tcl.exp
Tcl.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __fltused
Tcl.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _strcmp referenced
+ in function _boot_Tcl
LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __DllMainCRTStartup@1
+2
blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externa
+ls
make: *** [blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll] Signal 96
\..\Perl\bin\perl.exe -I\..\Perl\lib -I\..\Perl\lib -MExtUtils::Comman
+d -e chmod 755 blib\arch\auto\Tcl\Tcl.dll

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      Are we missing something?

      Possibly that the latest CPAN incarnations of many packages will use features that were not available in the 5.6 days?

      5.8.0 came available circa 2002, so try Tcl-b2 which was the last version before that date. Then work forward.

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