[TriLUG] fighting with Perl on Windoze

[Matt Nash]

CPAN.pm never would work right for me on Windows.  Have you tried using 
ppm to install the package?

Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> I'm learning Perl on Windows is a different beast...
>
> Does anyone with working knowledge of Perl on Windows want to help me
> install an MSDE module (yes, yes, I know)?  I've used CPAN to try to
> get such working, but I am getting dependency errors and when I try to
> install the modules on which DBIx::MSSQLReporter is dependent, I still
> get errors. You can see lots of the errors (DOS logs) at:
>
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=693865
>  and
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700626
>
> The most recent one is
> -----------------------------------
> cpan> install DBD::ADO
> Running install for module 'DBD::ADO'
> Running make for S/SG/SGOELDNER/DBD-ADO-2.96.tar.gz
>   Has already been unwrapped into directory C:\Perl\cpan\build\DBD-ADO-2.96-Cxyo
> uJ
>   'C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL' returned status 65280, won't make
> Running make test
>   Make had some problems, won't test
> Running make install
>   Make had some problems, won't install
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Why couldn't you just use MySQL and not MSDE Wasp barcode?  Why, oh, why?
>
> Thank you so much for the help.  Working with MSDE has been a very
> frustrating experience.
>  --
>  Douglas A. Whitfield
>
>  UNC SILS, May 2008
>  Co-Founder Carolina Open Source Initiative
>  http://www.ibiblio.org/cosi
>  cell: 919-360-0306
>