I'm attempting to import code written in linux into eclipse's perl plugin 'epic', and have installed activestate perl in windows. Most of the modules have an activestate equivalent, but some of them I can't find in ppm. Does anyone know how I can get the following modules so that the code can compile?
File::Finder
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Utility
Sybase::CTlib
Sybase::DBlib
Sybase::Xfer
Template
Template::Constants
DBD::Sybase
File::Rsync
PerlIO/gzip
The best option is probably to remove Active Perl and replace it with Strawberry Perl. Because the Strawberry Perl installation includes a compiler, you are able to install most CPAN modules using the standard CPAN shell.
Trouchelle to the rescue!
http://trouchelle.com/perl/ppmrepview.pl?l=Template-Toolkit&v=10
The other modules cannot be built because of test failures or missing libraries.
i downloaded the File:finder module from cpan and was able to install successfully in the windows.
Only difference is we need to use nmake instead of make.
You can download perl modules from https://metacpan.org/ and then compile the same in windows.
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I installed MinGW for installing perl modules from CPAN. after successful installation in C:/MinGW, I started msys.bat typed
cpan
cpan> install File::List
The module installed successfully. But it is not found in lib or site directory of c:/perl.
It is installed in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\lib\perl5\site_perl\5.8\File instead.
How could I change the installation directory of CPAN modules to c:/perl/site or c:/perl/lib?
I used all default setting of MinGW. OS is Windows 7. Perl version 5.12.2.
"How could I change the installation directory of CPAN modules to c:/perl/site or c:/perl/lib?"
It's not clear to me why you would want to do that. If you used MinGW to install modules from CPAN, it is presumably because you want the advantages of the MinGW toolset (as described at
http://mingw.org/). And MinGW presumably knows what it is doing when it installs in the directory you cited.
If you really want to install to c:/perl/site or c:/perl/lib, you should probably use the cpan client that comes with Perl itself.
I figured out the problem. I don't have Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable 2008, 2010. I installed it and my problem is solved. May be Perl module builds which requires C compiler required this components.
Anyone ever have similar experience?
I want to use Perl for web development. I have tried to find out how to install it but when I tried to get ActivePerl it wouldn't install on Windows 8. Can anyone tell me how to install Perl on Windows 8? I can go for ActivePerl, Strawberry Perl, or any other Perl release as long as it will work on Windows 8.
As you already know, there are two generally used Perls in the Windows World:
ActivePerl from ActiveState.
Strawberry Perl which is an open source project started by Adam Kennedy -- a big honcho in the Perl community.
What's the big difference between them:
ActiveState Perl was designed to be a Perl solution specifically for Windows (and later both Macs and Linux). ActiveState offers a very nice Perl IDE called Komodo and has excellent Perl support. All you need is some cash. After all, that's how ActiveState makes its money. Of course, you can use EPIC instead of Komodo and get a lot of help from StackOverflow too.
ActiveState comes with the default Win32 modules already installed and also supplies a Perl Package Manager (PPM) instead of using CPAN for installing other CPAN modules. PPM has a nice GUI interface, and its modules have already been precompiled and tested. It also is a bit better than CPAN with dependency tracking. Of course, there might be some CPAN modules not in PPM, and that can be an issue.
Strawberry Perl was started to be more Open Source oriented than ActiveState. By default, Strawberry Perl comes with a Make program and a complete development environment, so that almost all CPAN modules are available and can be installed. This is because Strawberry Perl comes with the complete MinGW package which includes Make and a gcc compiler. The idea was to give Perl people who mainly use Linux and Unix machines a similar feeling solution for Windows.
In reality, both are pretty similar. ActiveState comes with the Win32 modules, but you can install them as needed on Strawberry Perl via CPAN. Strawberry Perl works with CPAN, but ActiveState gives you complete directions for installing the same MinGW environment that Strawberry Perl uses (via their PPM) which allows you to install all CPAN modules that Strawberry Perl can install. ActiveState comes with a GUI Perl Documentation that includes all installed Perl modules, but the perldoc command gives you the same information anyway.
So, if you're more Linux/Unix oriented and want something that feels very similar on Windows, go with Strawberry Perl. If you are using Perl as a Win32 solution, go with ActiveState. And, don't worry about choosing the wrong one. In the end, Strawberry Perl can include all those nice Win32 modules, and ActivePerl can use CPAN.
There is another SO posting that you might find what you're looking for here. A similar posting. In sum, I get the impression that Strawberry Perl would work alright, and so would ActivePerl. I rather liked Strawberry Perl, and it was so long ago that I installed it on my wife's Windows Vista machine that I can't remember why I chose it over ActivePerl, ymmv. CHEERS!
I have installed Strawberry Perl for Windows, "DWIM Perl" from: http://dwimperl.com/.
I would like to use Carp. So I have downloaded Carp-1.25 from CPAN, un-TAR-ed it, and ran nmake.
I get:
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 10.00.30319.01
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
to undefined at F:/Dwimperl/perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 1208
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'F:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
Note that it's not a Windows nmake problem, I get a similar error when running make in cygwin.
My system: MS Windows 7.
(By the way, I have been running ActiveState Perl fine, and there, PPM downloads and installs Carp with no problem.
The reason I've switched to Strawberry/DWIM Perl, is that I'd like to run a debugger, and Padre's latest version on ActiveState is 0.86, which is buggy. So I've installed DWIM Perl since I'd like to use Padre 0.92).
Carp is a core module so it be included with your Perl installation. Just try use Carp in your code.
and ran nmake.
why use nmake? DWIMPerl( StrawberryPerl) is not known to come with nmake, generally they come with dmake, and AFAIK, their documentation reflects this
Carp comes with your Perl distribution, it is a core module. corelist (offline version) shows you the standard modules that come with various Perl versions. You'll see that Carp comes with all Perl versions as far back as 5. There's nothing to download. Just use Carp. One of the hard things to understand about Perl for many people is that certain functionality doesn't exist except in modules, but these modules come with Perl anyway. I've seen a lot of people use system cp or system find because they didn't realize that Perl comes with a module to copy files or to search a file in a directory tree. It's in a module that you have to use.
Try using the cpan command to download your modules. The cpan command will search for, download, compile, test, and install any module you need. One of the reasons people use Strawberry Perl over ActivePerl is that, historically, the cpan command worked better on Strawberry Perl than on Active Perl.
I'm trying to install the YAML::Syck module (I'm actually trying to install Date::Manip, this is just a dependency), but it fails with the following message:
This module requires a C compiler at Makefile.PL line 38.
This happens whether I try to install using CPAN or if I try to download the packages and install manually.
I have gcc installed and on my PATH, I can access it from the same CYGWIN shell window that I'm trying to use to install YAML::Syck.
When looking for a C compiler, ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build don't necessarily look for gcc in your PATH, but query your perl's configuration for the C compiler it has been built with and expects it to be available for building Perl extensions as well.
On my system, it will look for cc in PATH, as per
$ perl -MConfig -E'say $Config{cc}'
cc
I've had trouble in the past getting everything to "just work" with cygwin, when it comes to compiling modules. You might want to take a look at Strawberry Perl, which is a Windows Perl distribution that comes bundled with all of the components needed for compilation of XS modules. I haven't personally tried to install YAML::Syck with it, but I have installed many other XS modules without incident.
Once it is installed and in your path (usually automatically), you should be able to run cpan from the Windows command prompt to install the module.
Maintainer speaking
The better forum to ask is the cygwin mailinglist. There you will find the same questions being asked again and again, we can point to the messages, and the
maintainers are present.
The quality of the answers will be much better.
The official latest perl announcement was http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
perl used to bundle most useful modules for CPAN and Testing with the core perl.
With the latest 5.14 package the useful modules were moved to the seperate package perl_vendor.
The dependencies to be able to compile modules by your own via cpan are not included.
You'll need make and gcc-4 at least.
See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/perl.README for the package specific README.
YAML::Syck is considered broken and unmaintained (*_why* left), please try to use a better YAML package, like YAML or YAML::XS, written by the inventor and author of YAML itself (ingy).
Date::Manip does not require YAML::Syck. cpan does like to have a YAML modules, but prefers YAML::XS.
You'll find out that you'll be able to install much more packages with cygwin perl than with strawberry perl (=mingw).
Trying to install Ptkdb on Windows 7 with Perl 5.12.2 (ActiveState) — how do I do this?
ptkdb is available on CPAN. It's also available for Perl 5.12 in the bribes repository:
ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Devel-ptkdb.ppd
For pure Perl modules, all you need to do is run the Makefile.PL that comes with the module. If the module is a mix of Perl and C, you will need to get a C/C++ compiler for Windows that works with your distribution of Perl. I would recommend asking around for a Windows binary first if it's a mixed module.