Re: Can't install CPAN modules on XP

If you're using Activestate Perl (which it seems you are from your OP), you can just use Perl Package Manager to install/updated modules.

From the "Start" menu, select "Run", type 'cmd' and press "OK". In the Command Prompt, type 'ppm' and press enter. Alternatively, you could just Start -> Run -> ppm, if Windows knows were to find it (C:\Perl\bin is in your path).

That should allow you to install pre-built modules.

If you still want to 'CPAN' modules the hard way, use PPM to install 'dmake'. You can get Microsoft's 'nmake' if you have Visual C++ installed - I'm guessing you don't otherwise you'd have nmake already.

ppm install dmake
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Re^2: Can't install CPAN modules on XP by elef (Friar) on Jul 01, 2010 at 14:46 UTC
Thanks, sounds good. Just checked and the perl package manager seems to work. It can't find a module I need, though. Any idea why? It's this one: http://search.cpan.org/~kilinrax/HTML-Strip-1.06/ It doesn't show up and HTML-Strip in PPM and if I search for the author (Bowley) I only get one of his 3 modules on CPAN: HTML-SyntaxHighlighter. Does PPM only offer a limited subset of the modules on CPAN? Do I need to add some repository or another?	[reply]
Re^3: Can't install CPAN modules on XP by randyk (Parson) on Jul 01, 2010 at 19:16 UTC
The HTML-Strip package is available as a ppm package for perl-5.10 at the bribes and trouchelle repositories.	[reply]
Re^4: Can't install CPAN modules on XP by elef (Friar) on Jul 02, 2010 at 08:07 UTC
Added the repository, installed the modules, tried the script that uses them, everything seems to work fine. Thank you for the quick help, everyone!	[reply]