[Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

[Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior]

On 6/28/06, Hugh Lampert <hlampert at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem.  Hate to impose on
> the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a
> good  win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or other
> "environments"?  the CPAN module was kind enough to download and install
> NMAKE from Microsoft itself (that  was nice), when I upgraded it.

Although it's somewhat like killing a mosquito using a shotgun, I
usually install the Dev-Cpp open-source IDE for Windows. It already
comes with everything you need to self-compile your modules
(GCC/MinGW, etc) and works out-of-the-box. It's not a big download
(8mb I think) so it's something pretty reasonable.

The only manual configuration I remeber having to do is to add the GCC
/bin dir to my system PATH variable. And then the CPAN shell from
ActiveState will automatically configure itself and work using GCC.
Since you've upgraded your CPAN shell using a version from the CPAN, I
don't know if the magic still works and you might have to manually
configure your compiler parameters (but that's a one time thing).

-Nilson Santos F. Jr.