fionbarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi how do I tell CPAN that I have MinGW (gcc) installed?

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Re: mysql installation w/cpan
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 18, 2010 at 17:03 UTC

    What makes you think it doesn't already know?

    Ie. You must be getting some kind of error message. If you tell us that message, it may help us help you.

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      "it looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed" then it says ppm.bat can't find a package that provides MinGW.
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        • Do you actually have a compiler installed?
        • What version of perl are you using? (Hint: perl -V)
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