Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure

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

Hi,

Can someone tell me the procedure of installing Mozilla::Mechanize on windows machine. I tried "ppm install Mozilla::Mechanize", which was not worked.

I downloaded the package from cpan,and tried installing that package by running the Makefile.pl its showing dependency on Gtk2::MozEmbed and Mozilla::DOM. When trying to install these packages my machine is throwing these errors

MakeMaker FATAL: prerequisites not found.
ExtUtils::PkgConfig not installed
Gtk2 not installed
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Please help me in solving the issue. Thanks in Advance

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Re: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 01, 2011 at 07:28 UTC
This will help.	[reply]
Re^2: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Marshall (Canon) on Jan 01, 2011 at 10:07 UTC
I would say that the OP has quite a project going! I don't think that VC6 is necessary as I think another alternative will work. Active State provides MinGW as a downloadable .ppd package via their ppm. This version of the gcc compiler and VC6 will link with the same version of memory management DLL, MSVCRT.dll - this detail can be very important for the XS parts to work together. Other versions of MS compilers will NOT use the same .dlls. The compiler matters. I have installed MinGW before via ppm and it brings the right kind of "make" with it as a dependency. This installation takes about 5 minutes. I would try this first as far as setting up the compiler environment for the many next steps. An Anon Monk has a post in this thread about installing GTk2 and one of the requirements is this MinGW package. I suggest using the compiler that Active State recommends and makes easy to install before resorting to more complex measures. Of course, mileage varies. I have not personally installed the set of software desired by the OP, but in general, the usual reason that some package is not available as a .ppd is that there is some "gottcha". How important or not that "gottcha" is varies. Update: The OP didn't say, but I've found that I like the graphical ppm for most jobs. All the command line stuff is still there, but the graphics make some jobs easier. Just type "ppm" with no args at the command prompt. "ppm help" gives all the details about command line options.	[reply]
Re^3: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Anonymous Monk on Jan 01, 2011 at 10:15 UTC
The OP is almost certainly on Windows. Even if he could get GTK and its Perl bindings installed, Firefox on Windows doesn't use GTK.	[reply]
Re^4: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Marshall (Canon) on Jan 01, 2011 at 10:26 UTC
Re^2: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Anonymous Monk on Jan 01, 2011 at 07:42 UTC
For a program see this(esp build-gtk-glib-post.PL), but that won't help you compile gtkmozembed, a special brand of PITA	[reply]
Re: Package Mozilla::Mechanize installation procedure by Anonymous Monk on Jan 01, 2011 at 07:24 UTC
Please help me in solving the issue. Thanks in Advance Don't bother, you won't be solving it. Try WWW::Mechanize::Firefox instead	[reply]