Re^4: A Guide to Installing Modules

[tachyon]

I don't know why Enum.pm installed in the wrong location, actually I am almost certain it did not. The module you are installing is enum.pm not Enum.pm for a start. Did you do the nmake install? When I do it this is what it says.....

[snip, following the tests we do.....]
C:\enum-1.016>nmake install

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

Skipping D:\Perl\site\lib\enum.pm (unchanged)
Writing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\enum\.packlist
Appending installation info to D:\Perl\lib/perllocal.pod

C:\enum-1.016>

So you can see where it goes. You can just cut and paste the enum.pm module to \perl\site\lib\enum.pm and it will work but I am certain you forgot the install step as on my system there is enum.pm as noted and Enum.pm in Win32\OLE\Enum.pm :-)

Don't know why you don't have Win32::API if you have ActiveState Perl (you did say you were using ppm). cl is the M$ C compiler and you do need it to compile source that contains C. I have a tutorial on setting that up as well but you need access to MSVCC. However Win32::API is available as a ppm so all you need to do is:

C:\>ppm install Win32::API
Installing package 'Win32-API'...
Downloading http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/MSWin32-x86
+-multi-thread/Win32-API-0.41.tar.gz ...

[wfsp]

Phew! I've installed a module from CPAN and used it to dialup a connection!

I was sure that Re: Installing Perl on a Windows PC was wrong. Now I'm not so sure. As soon as I get under the bonnet it's like a big black hole.

I did notice this though:

C:\Win32-RASE-1.01>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
1..6
ok 1
not ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
not ok 6

Is it safe to ignore?

Many thanks for your help
btw, I thought your black hole looked a bit white!

[tachyon]

Is it safe to ignore?

The test come from test.pl in the root dir or t/test_name.t In this case they are from test.pl. Have a look at test.pl, read the tests, see what they are trying to test, decide if that matters to you. If it does fix the source.