in reply to set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)

Maybe if you tried perl -MCPAN -e shell

See perlrun for the how/why

Or simply use cpan as in cpan.bat or perl -S cpan

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Re^2: set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
by ROFL (Initiate) on Nov 10, 2011 at 23:00 UTC

    Thanks! That worked... Surprised it was so easy.

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      Basically, perl tries to read the script to execute from stdin (in this case, your keyboard) if no script was given on the command-line for it to execute. So it was waiting for your input for that hour. (To terminate the input, you can press ctrl-D on the command-line for Unix (you may have to press enter before that), and I believe it is ctrl-Z on dos/windows.)

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