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romandas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, fellow Monks:

I have been a longtime ActivePerl user on Windows, but have recently heard many good things about Strawberry Perl, so I decided to give it a whirl. Unfortunately, I hit a snag very early on and humbly request your assistance.

Specifically, I installed Strawberry Perl (strawberry-perl-5.10.0.6.msi) on a freshly installed XP (w/ SP3) test machine. I noticed that the libwin32 bundle that normally is included in the ActivePerl install is not included by default in Strawberry, so I fired up cpan to rectify that.

A 'get Bundle::libwin32' later, I got some of the modules, but then I received about 5 errors, all stating: prerequisite moduleFindBin not known.

I'm not sure what to make of this. I queried (cpan> i /FindBin/) and it returned FindBin::Real and FindBin::libs. My questions are:
1. Do either of these satisfy the dependency I'm missing?
2. How can I find out specifically which module needs FindBin? The cpan output was only what I pasted above -- nothing more informative.
3. Will I regret switching? :)

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Re: Prerequisite module [FindBin] not known?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 06, 2009 at 22:49 UTC
    1. Do either of these satisfy the dependency I'm missing?

    No. FindBind has been a core module (part of perl) since 5.00307. StrawberryPerl includes FindBin ( perldoc -l FindBin).

    2. How can I find out specifically which module needs FindBin? The cpan output was only what I pasted above -- nothing more informative.

    I suggest you find the debug/verbose setting and turn it on, or install each module individually 

    cpan  Win32

cpan  Win32::ChangeNotify

cpan  Win32::Clipboard

cpan  Win32::Console

cpan  Win32::Event

cpan  Win32::EventLog

cpan  Win32::File

cpan  Win32::FileSecurity

cpan  Win32::IPC

cpan  Win32::Internet

cpan  Win32::Job

cpan  Win32::Mutex

cpan  Win32::NetAdmin

cpan  Win32::NetResource

cpan  Win32::ODBC

cpan  Win32::OLE

cpan  Win32::PerfLib

cpan  Win32::Pipe

cpan  Win32::Process

cpan  Win32::Registry

cpan  Win32::Semaphore

cpan  Win32::Service

cpan  Win32::Shortcut

cpan  Win32::Sound

cpan  Win32::TieRegistry

cpan  Win32::WinError

cpan  Win32API::File

cpan  Win32API::Net

cpan  Win32API::Registry

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    3. Will I regret switching? :)

    Testicles :)

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Re: Prerequisite module [FindBin] not known?
by romandas (Pilgrim) on Aug 07, 2009 at 02:23 UTC
    What is particularly strange is when I ran the install (cpan> install Bundle::libwin32), it seems to have been successful, even though I haven't figured out where the 'module not known' error is coming from.
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