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in thread Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8

What did you get when you tried it? (c&p the output).

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Re^6: Installing Perl modules on Win64/Perl 5.8
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2010 at 09:59 UTC
    What did you get when you tried it?

    It should yield: 
    C:\_64>ppm-shell
ppm 4.10 (ActivePerl 827)
Copyright (C) 2010 ActiveState Software Inc.  All rights reserve

ppm> search *
Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...not found
*** no packages matching '*' found ***

ppm>

    [download]
    Looks like there's no ppm repo for w64 perl-5.8 ... at ActiveState, at least.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Which leaves the OP with the three choices already posted:

      1. Use a 32-bit 5.8.
      2. Use a 64-bit 5.10
      3. Build his own

      Insisting that someone else (be it AS or anyone else) build a package repository so that he can insist on using a 64-bit version of 5.8 seems a little ....

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Which leaves the OP with the three choices already posted

        Yep - that's about it.

        There was a post I saw somewhere in the last couple of weeks where someone claimed to have googled up a 64-bit PPM repo - one that I hadn't heard of. I can't remember where I saw that post, and I now can't find it. I don't know whether the person was talking about a 5.8 rep and I don't even know that the claim was accurate - but if lintunen has good google-foo, then it might be worth trying to google up "64 bit PPM" repos, and see if that leads anywhere.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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