[TriLUG] fighting with Perl on Windoze

[Jeremy Portzer]

Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> wrote:
>>  Have you tried using Cygwin?  This is my solution to most open-source on
>>  Windows problems (I'm forced to use Windows myself at $JOB, but do
>>  everything I can in cygwin.)
>>
>>  --Jeremy
> 
> I've never used cygwin.  I assume given this comment it can access
> windows resources.  I had trouble installing the MSDE module on Linux,
> I think because it needed Windows specific packages, so I'm curious as
> to if cygwin will do it.  I'll let you know once I've had a chance to
> test it out...perhaps not until Monday, but probably before.
> 

To be fair, I have not used Windows-specific Perl modules such as you 
describe with Cygwin's Perl, so it may require some experimentation 
and/or Googling.  But I've had no problems with configuring CPAN and 
downloading/installing generic Perl modules.

--Jeremy