There is someone(s) wiser than me out there! I am developing on a Windows box (and do not have access to Linux) and upload to a Linux server. My hosting service does not allow command prompt access to the server and does not want to install additional Perl packages. I cannot use the cpan module because, as far as I can see, you need to run it from the command line to configure. I tried to use PPM in a perl cript, but they do not have PPM.pm installed! Finally, I followed these steps to use my packages up till now: 1) Made a sub-directory "lib" from the "cgi-bin" directory. 2) FTP'd the packages from my PC to the host server in their appropriate sub-directories. 3) Put the following statement at the top of my Perl files: use lib "/home/httpd/html/mydir/cgi-bin/lib;" The following packages work without a problem: 
use Net::POP3;
use MIME::QuotedPrint;
use MIME::Parser;
use DBI;
use URI::Escape;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

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But when I try to use MIME::Lite and MIME::Lite::HTML the following errors are returned: 
Software error:
[Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] HTML.pm: [Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] HTML.pm: 
+[Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] LinkExtor.pm: [Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] Par
+ser.pm: [Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] Entities.pm: Can't locate loadable 
+object for module HTML::Parser in @INC (@INC contains: /home/httpd/ht
+ml/mydir/cgi-bin/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i386-linux-thread /usr/li
+b/perl5/5.00502 /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/i386-linux-thread /usr/lib/p
+erl5/site-perl .) at /home/httpd/html/mydir/cgi-bin/lib/HTML/LinkExto
+r.pm line 26 [Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2002] HTML.pm: [Fri Aug 2 17:18:53 2
+002] HTML.pm: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/httpd/html/m
+ydir/cgi-bin/lib/MIME/Lite/HTML.pm line 64. BEGIN failed--compilation
+ aborted at /home/httpd/html/mydir/cgi-bin/Test.pl line 46.

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After searching for perlmonk wisdom I have determinded that MIME::Lite and MIME::Lite::HTML are dependent on HTML::Parser which contains binaries. After some more reading I installed Cygwin and gcc with the purpose of cross-compiling for the Linux platform. Before I continue, am I on the right track? Is there any easier way of cross-compiling for Linux? Did anyone ever write an article on preparing binaries on Windows for upload to a Linux server? I wait in anticipation...

In reply to Compiling packages on Windows for use on Linux by DearHeart

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