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Re: Problems installing Perl packages in Cygwin AND Problems with Activestate perl in Cygwin
- From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler at mail dot earthlink dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 19:00:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problems installing Perl packages in Cygwin AND Problems with Activestate perl in Cygwin
At 03:10 PM 5/7/2003 -0500, Charles Plager wrote:
I am running a (fairly) current cygwin install (Installed last month).
I am trying to either:
1) install LWP and Tk (or any other Perl packages) on Cygwins perl
OR
2) Get activestate Perl (where I have said packages installed already) to
understand how to parce cygwin path names.
Specifically:
1) I'm trying to install packages by:
unix> perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install LWP
I have a working LWP install on Cygwin. I did it by using cpan to download
and untar the packages ("get"), then going into the ~/.cpan/build/foo
directories and building "manually". Usually this is just a matter of "perl
Makefile.pl; make; make test; make install".
You will have to read the modules' READMEs to make sure you have all
required dependencies installed. As I recall, LWP needs quite a few other
modules which aren't core Perl. They're all easily cpan-gettable, though.
One other gotcha: LWP will try to install /usr/bin/HEAD, which will
conflict with /usr/bin/head.exe in our flexibly-cased and
.exe-semitransparent wonderland. Just rename head.exe to head.exe.bak
before the install, or let the HEAD installation fail (it's syntactic sugar
for the command line, not needed for Perl code).
Tk I can't help you with.
2) The problem is when I've got an Activestate Perl script in
/home/cplager/scripts. For example
unix> cd /home/cplager/scripts
unix> ./script
Can't open perl script "/home/cplager/scripts/script": No such file or
directory
You can't teach non-Cygwin Windows apps about Cygwin paths (although you
can, as already mentioned, wrap them).
Jeremy
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