Hi,
I did also try this but I get the same error "Failed to load PPM_DAT file"
and then nothing seems to work even though I am in the PPM shell.
Jason
"Jos I.
Boumans" To: "Evgeny Goldin \(aka Genie\)"
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eur.nl> Subject: Re: Installing new Modules
problem
11/06/01
21:19
first of all, on a windows machine, you dont have 'make'... best
substitution i found is 'nmake' (it gets referred to somewhere in the AS
manual).
second of all, quite a few modules require a c compiler to be installed...
now, again, windows does not ship with a c compiler by default, so here are
your options:
- get M$ visual c++ development kit (4 cd's and a hell of a lot of cash) to
get the c compiler
- use PPM which has pre-compiled binaries in their ppm format
my 2 bits say the latter is the easiest way, *if* it works of course...
sadly, ppm is not always up to date (they still ship POE 0.09, whilst we're
at 014 now, and dont even run imager or libwin32, but enough ranting).
as for your original problem:
try run -> cmnd -> ppm (running ppm directly has caused an error or 2 now
and then on my box)
search win32
install that-module-you-like (no need to add .ppd at the end)
hth,
Jos Boumans
> > I download a
> > module from activestate but when I try to install it I get the
following
> > error.
> >
> G:\Perl\bin>>ppm install win32-gui.ppd
>
> Why not to visit the CPAN, take the tar.gz distribution, open it and run
> perl makefile.pl
> make
> make test
> make install ?
>
> That's so easy - I never understood things trying to automate those
> basic actions .. like some ppm tool
>
>
>
