Sounds like an error somewhere during your initial installation... i recall seeing
that happen more often on this list
you might want to concider checking the AS support pages, or mailing them your problem
hth,
Jos Boumans
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> Hi,
>
> I did also try this but I get th
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
> 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).
I have a simple repository t
>
> > 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 ?
>
>
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
> 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 understoo
You would actually be better off using ActiveState's Perl Package Manager
(PPM). If you are not familiar with it or CPAN, it is a command line tool
that simplifies the task of installing modules.
To invoke ppm on the command line, simply issue the command 'ppm'.
At the ppm prompt, if you know t
