I can see from the testers page that Devel::Cover is supposed to work on Windows. Is there a ppd distribution of it somewhere so I can install it on ActivePerl without a compiler ?
Currently if I type
ppm install Devel::Cover
I get version 0.2 of Devel::Coverage. Not what I wanted.
It builds ok for me on one of my Windows machines, so I'm not sure why it's failing ActiveState's build system <http://ppm.activestate.com/>. The log message isn't that helpful. I know that their system basically goes through CPAN trying to build each module. Only those that build out of the box without intervention make it to the repository. I haven't really checked, but one common cause of failure, I would suspect, are dynamic dependencies, i.e. dependencies that are not specified to MakeMaker.
Randy Kobes keeps a repository where he builds modules that don't build out of the box on Windows. His site is at <http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/>. There you'll find his email address and links to the repositories. I don't see Devel::Cover there, but he is very nice about putting up requested modules.
Randy.
