CPAN module in Cygwin

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Elvin Peterson wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  Are these part of
> cygwin (or do they have to be installed separately?
> :-))?  In any case running CPAN sends my machine to
> OOM, so I am sticking to precompiled binaries for now.

You can fetch any source package via ftp or from http://search.cpan.org/
and build and install them manually:
$ tar xzf package-name.tar.gz
$ cd package-name
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install


Gerrit
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