Dear monks,

I am working on Win7 with ActivePerl.Sometimes, I search for a module on CPAN, and found some good stuffs, then I want to install it.

Then I start ppm, and sometimes, the module I want just not on the list. I might guess, maybe I didn't have the repositories from a site that carrying that particular module, for this part, I have added bunch of them now, but still that happen the module not on the list.

Now I will try cpan TheModule... this trick will always have the module I wanted, but after a long long screen scrolled, it just tell me failed to install. In fact, I never have any successful installation of module via CPAN when I am using ActivePerl (but my gcc compiler, nmake etc are just all fine).

So, according to your experience, could you tell is this because the module is not for Windows ? or that module is not for ActivePerl ? or I missed something else ? And.. is that anyway I can know if a module only for particular OS on the CPAN site ( or view source of that module ) ?

In reply to How to know if a module is for windows or linux ? by exilepanda

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