On Saturday 31 Oct 2009 06:38:20 Ganesh Babu N wrote: > CPAN modules are meant for Linux. It is very easy to install CPAN > modules on Linux. > > Please refer http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html >
First of all, CPAN modules are not meant for Linux in particular. Most CPAN modules work best under most modern and high-quality UNIX-like operating systems (e.g: Linux, the BSDs, Solaris and OpenSolaris, and to a lesser extent HP/UX, AIX, etc.), but many can also easily work on the Microsoft Windows NT- based operating systems. Most Perl Authors don't wish to discriminate against MS-Windows users unless they really need to. Some more links than yours are: * http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/ * http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/non-root/ * http://perl-begin.org/topics/cpan/ * http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/but-i-cant-use-cpan/ > It is not easy to install CPAN modules directly on Windows. For > windows the famous distribution is ActiveState. Please read this for > installation of modules http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/par/webstart.html > Actually, installing CPAN modules on Windows with Strawberry Perl or cygwin's perl is pretty easy. It's just that ActivePerl has been heavily under- maintained and also is dependent on various proprietary tools (such as Microsoft Developer Studio), and it took some time for Adam Kennedy and his good friends to realise that they need to start the Vanilla Perl and Strawberry Perl efforts to create a community-maintained and free-as-in-speech distribution of perl for Windows. If you can, please use Strawberry Perl instead of ActivePerl. See: http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
