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<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></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff">
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</p><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></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br>Strange, MIME::Tools is another module that installs fine in my Strawberry 5.10.0.0. No freezing on tests. Make sure that, if you're going to install things manually, use the command "look" to get the correct build environment:<br>
<br>cpan> look MIME::Tools<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">
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</p><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><p><font face="Arial" size="2">I have also tried to install WxPerl with it, but
without success.</font></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>Another strange one... WxWidgets is one of Strawberry star installations for the October2008 release. <br><br><a href="http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html">http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html</a><br>
<br>I don't develop for Wx, but I installed it (and Tk) successfully in Strawberry with cpan. <br><br>DBD::mysql needs the mysql source code to link to. That's a good candidate for ppm.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</p><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></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>The strawberry ppm has given me problems also. That's supposed to be one of the improvements in the latest Strawberry Jan 2009, but I haven't tried so far. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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language for Windows because it is hard to adapt the modules that work fine
under other systems.</font>
</p></blockquote></div></blockquote>I agree that perl and cpan modules favor posix features, such as fork(), and that's a no-go for windows. I just try to avoid those by using no-posix modules. I use ppms for tough to install modules, sometimes unzipping them straight into c:\strawberry\perl\site\lib if the ppm installer is not working well, which has been the case for strawberry lately. <br>
<br>--rodrigo<br></div><br>