Re: First time with CPAN

2005-04-13 Thread N. Ganesh Babu
Dear Walt, Which perl distribution you are using. For windows, Activestate perl is recommended. This distribution comes along with the PPM package, which is very user friendly with windows systems. All modules are also available in zip formats on activestate website itself. 1. Download the zip

Re: First time with CPAN

2005-04-13 Thread Alfred Vahau
Hi, In windows you use nmake which you can download from the MS site. Alfred, Walter A Poor Jr wrote: Hello. I am trying to install a CPAN module (Spreadsheet::ParseExcel) on a Windows PC. My difficulty is that the author had unix in mind, and is not sure how the makefile should be run in Window

Re: First time with CPAN

2005-04-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Walter A Poor Jr wrote: Hello. Hello, I am trying to install a CPAN module (Spreadsheet::ParseExcel) on a Windows PC. My difficulty is that the author had unix in mind, and is not sure how the makefile should be run in Windows. Perl itself will not handle the makefile, and the simple-minded at

First time with CPAN

2005-04-13 Thread Walter A Poor Jr
Hello. I am trying to install a CPAN module (Spreadsheet::ParseExcel) on a Windows PC. My difficulty is that the author had unix in mind, and is not sure how the makefile should be run in Windows. Perl itself will not handle the makefile, and the simple-minded attempt to run the makefile dir