A no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows?
A few days ago, Adam Kennedy offered a vertical metre of beer for a Windows Perl installer that works and can install XS modules from CPAN normally, as we might expect from a Linux install. Stephen Steneker and Carl Franks entered the contest, taking different approaches, the former beating the latter by a short head. So now there are two such distributions which meet Adams criteria: CamelPack and VanillaPerl. PXPerl may also soon join their ranks.
Sounds like good news for those living in Win32-land to me.
Re: Towards a no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows
created: 2006-01-26 08:47:58
I have just quick tested it (CamelPack). Download and Installing works flawlessly and the compilation of Text::CSV_XS works as advertised. DBD::ODBC does not compile.
A little flaw: The installer does not note when there is another c compiler present in the system. check your path settings when you get errors, maybe the wrong compiler gets used.
holli, /regexed monk/
A little flaw: The installer does not note when there is another c compiler present in the system. check your path settings when you get errors, maybe the wrong compiler gets used.
holli, /regexed monk/
Re: Towards a no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows
created: 2006-01-26 08:53:18
I had previously gone through the struggle of getting ActivePerl, MinGW and nmake to work together to compile XS modules under Windows. Even then, I had to use ExtUtils::FakeConfig to get it to work.
Remember: There's always one more bug.
I wiped all that out, and gave CamelPack a try. It worked great!
- Download the setup.exe, and then run it.
- For the Dev-C++ pack, you can just install the "MinGW compiler system" option if you don't want the full IDE.
- Then run cpan to get it configured.
Remember: There's always one more bug.
Re: Towards a no-fuss end-user-level distribution of Perl for Windows
created: 2006-01-26 11:39:42
Sounds like good news for those living in Win32-land to me.
Damn good news. Wish I knew about this a few weeks back - would have made my life easier :-)