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in reply to Can't install CPAN modules

If you want to use CPAN rather than PPM, it might be worth having a look at Strawberry Perl as that comes with a C compiler and all the other requirements for CPAN

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Re^2: Can't install CPAN modules
by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 13, 2011 at 19:17 UTC

    Actually so does Active State's Perl package as of about 5.10.

    It's hard to imagine how the OP got a modern install of Perl (assuming it to be such) on to their system without getting a compiler and support for using cpan.

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