in reply to Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8

Not sure about ppm availability but if you install the freely available Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 (which is the compiler that built your w64 ActivePerl) you'll be able to build and install modules from source.

Once it's installed, you run "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK\SetEnv.cmd" /XP64 /RETAIL to set up the compilation environment.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8
by lintunen (Novice) on Mar 23, 2010 at 08:37 UTC
    Assuming the version of server is Windows Server 2008 R2, does this mean I should be installing the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 instead?
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      ... does this mean I should be installing the Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 instead?

      I don't think so. Assuming you're going to be using your compiler with ActivePerl, you (ideally) want the same compiler that built ActivePerl - which is the one that I gave the link to.

      My PC is not a server at all, and the operating system is Vista (64 bit), yet that compiler works fine with the w64 builds of ActivePerl.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        That link redirects me to install Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - do you believe that this is still OK?
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