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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=rodrigolive@gmail.com
href="mailto:rodrigolive@gmail.com">Rodrigo</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">> Oops, ok, sorry, I thought you had
Strawberry. Last year I swapped all things "Active" for Strawberry
Perl.<BR>> <BR>> In any case, maybe you can tinker with the ActivePerl
cpan Config.pm so that it uses the MinGW compiler and the Strawberry cpan
settings. The </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">> idea would be to make ActivePerl compile
its modules using the Strawberry config settings.Don't know if that would
work. <BR>> <BR>> Another way (if don't want to switch to strawberry
flavored perl) is to just install Strawberry, then edit your PATH and strip
off all c:\strawberry\... </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">> directories so that it won't disturb your
ActivePerl installation. Then create a little bat file that will give you a
"strawberry prompt". Install modules with > strawberry cpan, then copy them
from strawberry\perl\site (and auto) into ActivePerl's \site
directories.<BR></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've tried to use Strawberry Perl, but I've seen
that I can't install some modules on it.</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I needed to install MIME::Tools by downloading the
package manually, and doing perl Makefile.PL, dmake, skip dmake test and do
only dmake install, because I couldn't do it using cpan. On the dmake test, it
freezes on a certain test.</FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I also couldn't install DBD::mysql, even though
I've also tried without cpan, because on dmake it gives some errors I don't
understand, even though I've added all those directories which perl
Makefile.PL needs.</FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have also tried to install WxPerl with it, but
without success.</FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've seen that the ppm it uses seems to be either
very old or a different kind than that used by Activeperl because it seems to
have less features.</FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>From this point of view, Perl is not a very good
language for Windows because it is hard to adapt the modules that work fine
under other systems.</FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Octavian</FONT>
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