Installing CPAN module under Win7x64

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

I'm probably doing something wrong, but I started with

    ppm install MinGW
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using ActiveState Perl 5.12 I got response:

    ppm.BAT install failed: Can't find any package that provides MinGW
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I remember, in my previous incarnations I could do it without problem... Any advice?

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Re: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64 by Marshall (Canon) on Nov 12, 2011 at 12:55 UTC
This came up just recently in another thread..Re: Problem installing modules on Windows 7 64bit build (Active Perl 2.12.4) There is no 64 bit port of MinGW yet.	[reply]
Re^2: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 12, 2011 at 14:52 UTC
There is no 64 bit port of MinGW yet That's not quite right - there's a 64 bit port of the MinGW compiler available, but if you want to use it with ActivePerl you need to also install ExtUtils::FakeConfig. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64 by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 12, 2011 at 17:08 UTC
http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net - As used by Strawberry Perl, among others.	[reply]
Re: Installing CPAN module under Win7x64 by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2011 at 09:54 UTC
There is no such package for 64bit	[reply]