How to install perl modules?

[Jason Pearce]

Yes, use the CPAN module as Brian suggests. Just make sure environment 
variable PERLIO is unset when using -MCPAN, otherwise it will fail. (You 
might set this to CRLF for DOS compatibility purposes).
Also be aware that you may have trouble building some modules that use C 
code and have not been ported to Cygwin, mainly OS modules like WIN32. 
Straight Perl modules should just work out of the box, and CPAN will get 
all pre-requisites for you too. You'll never want ppm again!

Regards,
Jason

Brian Dessent wrote:

>Manuel Tejada wrote:
>
>  
>
>>> Somebody can tell me from what URL I must to download
>>> a perl module and how to install it in Cygwing?
>>    
>>
>
>You use CPAN.  "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Foo::Bar'" or "perl -MCPAN -e
>shell".  There is no URL to know, it takes care of all of that. 
>http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html
>
>  
>
>>> In pure Windows is easy is you have Perl from
>>> ActiveState but Perl installed in Cygwin doesnt have
>>> the ppm Manager.
>>    
>>
>
>To me (and perhaps others) that's a feature and not a bug.  I can't
>stand that ppm junk.
>
>Brian
>  
>


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