From: Shlomi Fish > 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 I would suggest you also take a look at camelbox. It was the result of a Google "Summer of Code" project. I have been using it on WinXP for more than six months with no issues. Modules install directly from CPAN. <http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/> Bob McConnell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
