Issues Installing CPAN Modules on Win NT - Activestate Perl 5.61

Hi,
I am having many difficulties installing Bundle-W3C-Validator-0.6.5
due to  dependencies. I have no problem installing the Activestate ppm
files, but when trying to compile and install the CPAN Modules, they
don't seem to make properly.

The Module I am trying to install is HTML-Parser-3.36.tar.gz

I am using MingW MinGW-3.0.0-1.exe and have tried to use

mingw32-make-3.80.0-1.exe with no success
nmake15 - cannot find specified file or directory U1077 -
'C:\winnt\system32
\cmd.exe'
nmake /I - makefile completes but nmake test fails
make-3.78.1 - missing separator
dmake - Error - Expecting macro or rule defn, found neither

I'm not sure where to go from here.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Jack Wayne

ActiveState perl comes with HTML-Parser-3.36 already installed - at 
least the latest 5.6.1 build (638) does.

In any case the META.yml file states that you need only version 3.25 or 
later - so unless you have a very old build of perl5.6.1, it should be ok.

To see what version you have, run:
perl -MHTML::Parser -e "print $HTML::Parser::VERSION"

If you can't find a particular ppm, be sure to check the repository at:
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

Note: I haven't installed this bundle - I don't know what other (if any) 
problems may surface in trying to get it installed on AS perl. If you 
can get all of those prerequisites installed first, then that should 
simplify things quite a bit.


If you want to build modules with MinGW and dmake, then first build perl 
with MinGW and dmake. It's not difficult - just download the perl 5.8.5 
source from CPAN, and follow the instructions in the 'README.win32'.

That particular version of MinGW (ie MinGW-3.0.0-1.exe) will do just fine.

Cheers,
Rob


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The HTML::Parser Version is 3.13, I can't remember the version that is
available in the repository but it also doesn't satify the
dependencies.
Config::General is another package that will not install properly.
I haven't got past the Config::general so I don't know of other
dependencies yet.

I will check the repository below, for other versions.
I am guessing that by installing activestate Perl I will not be able
to install modules compiled with MingW as the compiled modules will be
incopatible.

Compiling perl for my use only would suffice although, perl will not
be compiled on the server I work on.

Thanks for Tips

Jack Wayne

I could send you HTML::Parser-3.36 if you like. (See below for my 
correct email address.)


The latest version of Config::General should be ok. It's a pure perl 
module so, if you have a properly functioning 'nmake', you could install 
it by grabbing the source from CPAN, extracting the source to some 
folder, 'cd'ing to that folder and running in succession:

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install

You could even simply install it by manually copying the '.pm' files to 
the correct location - though that's messy, prone to error, and not 
recommended.

It's dated 15th June - I thought ActiveState would have a ppm for it by now.


Problems arise when you start compiling modules using a compiler that is 
different to what perl was built with. If perl was built with MSVC++6.0 
(as is the case with ActiveState perl) then the smart thing to do is to 
use MSVC++6.0 to build the modules - otherwise you might (and usually 
do) hit problems.

However, modules built on AS perl using the MSVC++6.0 compiler will work 
perfectly well on a MinGW-built perl (and probably any other perl on 
Win32). And modules built on a MinGW-built perl using the MinGW compiler 
will function equally well on AS perl (and probably any other perl on 
Win32).

I should point out that trying to mix perl 5.6 and 5.8 binaries won't 
work. So don't go compiling extension modules (ie modules that contain 
an '.xs' file) on perl 5.8, and try to use them on perl 5.6, or vice-versa.

Cheers,
Rob


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