Dear Monks,

Sorry if this is very basic, but cpan did the hard work for me until now...

Could not untar with Archive::Tar.  Had problems unarchiving. 
Please build manually
Running make test
 Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'Net::SMTP::Server'.
Failed during this command: MACGYVER/SMTP-Server-.1.tar.gz            
+  : unwrapped NO -- untar failed
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Simple right?

To manually install a Perl module:
1. Download the Perl module from CPAN or other site.
2. Extract the tarball.
3. Run perl Makefile.PL
4. Run make
5. Run make test
6. Run make install
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Okayyyyy, I notice C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MA\MACGYVER is where the tarball is.

Previously failed builds appear to be in C:\strawberry\cpan\build\

Whereas properly installed contributed modules, such as XLSX::Writer are in:C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Spreadsheet\XLSX

Unlike standard ones which are in C:\strawberry\perl\lib

My question: do I just unpack/extrat "anywhere" on the drive and run the Makefile.PL etc.. command?

Very sorry if this is extremely basic.

Thanks and best regards.

UPDATE: Thanks to VinsWorldcom for pointing out dmake and not make has to be used (Windows).

Point noted Khen1950fx about the memory issue, it did not have an impact in my case. I manually extracted with 7zip and the build process went like a breeze!

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