Re^3: RFC: Changing Perl Config settings

[Bloodrage]

Fantastic, so I wasn't imagining things when I thought things weren't working as they should. It looks like I need to spend some time getting MinGW to compile some things outside the CPAN shell. It also explains why my program helps, because it explictly sets the -I and -L switches when it reconfigures CPAN's Config.pm.

I'm now considering the benefits of flattening my include directory structures into X:\strawberry\c\include rather than to have one for a) strawberry, b) GTK/Glade/Glib/Cairo... and c) a usr/include dir for 'one off' libraries. The current multiple include locations has the advantage of being able to update one without breaking the others, where the flattened version may result in overwriting 'good' with 'bad' when installing new material.

PS: I think I can circumvent the difficulty compiling GTK2-Perl by manually installing the ActivState PPM... except I don't want this compiling issue to continue being a PITA when in the field with this portable Perl-onna-stick thing.

[syphilis]

by manually installing the ActivState PPM ...

There's also the CPAN version of PPM which doesn't have all the whizz-bang-u-bute features of ActiveState's proprietary PPM - but it's quite functional. (There's a patch that enables it to handle zipped binaries, so that the ppm packages at the trouchelle rep are also accessible.)

Cheers,
Rob