Installing a missing module

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

I'm a beginner at installing Perl. We moved to a new server over the weekend. I've decided to stick to 32 bit version of Perl since 64 bit was giving me issues with ASP scripts. The only 32 bit my IT Admin had was 5.8.6. That's what I had him install. My OS is Windows Server 2019

Everything works okay except one script that has use Time::Piece. It gives me an error

Can't locate Time/Piece.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at format_schwabfile_manual.pl line 7 So I try to install it via ppm

C:\>ppm install time::Piece
Error: No valid repositories:
Error: 404 Not Found
Error: 404 Not Found
[download]

Tried cpan> install Time::Piece But that didn't work either. It was not able to connect to any of my URLS. So I manually download Time-Piece-1.33.tar.gz from CPAN. Now that I have the tar file, how do I manually install it?

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Re: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 24, 2020 at 04:26 UTC
You're much better off grabbing either strawberry-perl-5.30.0.1-32bit-portable.zip or strawberry-perl-5.30.0.1-64bit-portable.zip from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html. (I can't give you the full link because I can't actually access http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html at the moment.) I believe that the more common choice is for the 64bit version. Then you just unzip the package to your choice of location, cd to that location, execute portableshell.bat .... and start running whatever perl commands you like. Strawberry Perl ships with latest Time::Piece so you won't even have to install it. (But even if you did have to inatall it, it's as simple as `cpan -i Time::Piece`) To answer your question: 1) `tar zxvf Time-Piece-1.33.tar.gz` 2) `cd Time-Piece-1.33` 3) `perl Makefile.PL` 4) `nmake test` 5) `nmake install` You'll need a Microsoft C compiler, and also nmake (which will probably ship with the package that contains the C compiler). You may need that Microsoft Compiler to be VS 6.0, as that's the compiler that built your perl 5.8.6. (OTOH, other more recent versions of Microsoft compilers might suffice.) If you run `cl` you can see the version of the compiler that you have. For VS 6.0, it will be 12.00.something: `C:\>cl Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Standard Compiler Version 12.00.8168 for 80 +x86 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved. usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by davies (Prior) on Feb 08, 2020 at 21:37 UTC
If you upgrade that far, you may find you need to change all scripts & modules to `use lib '.';`. I have that scar, but no others, from a recent major upgrade. Regards, John Davies	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by kcott (Archbishop) on Jan 24, 2020 at 03:30 UTC
G'day amitvalia, Time::Piece was added in Perl v5.10 (see perl5100delta: New modules) which is why it wasn't available in your v5.8.6. I see the documentation has information relating to Win32 and 32-bit Perl: both in the CAVEATS section. When you unpack `Time-Piece-1.33.tar.gz`, I'd expect there to be files like `README` and `INSTALL` which explain how to do the installation. I've never used Windows Server 2019 so I can't provide any direct help; perhaps another monk has experience in this area. I will note that any commands using `make` typically need something else for Win32 (e.g. `dmake`) but I don't have specific knowledge to aid you. — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by Anonymous Monk on Jan 24, 2020 at 02:42 UTC
Hi Error: No valid repositories: Solution is obvious, add ppm repositories Tried cpan> install Time::Piece But that didn't work either. yawn If you copy/paste the error message, a solution is not far behind The only 32 bit my IT Admin had was 5.8.6. My OS is Windows Server 2019 LOL	[reply]
Re^2: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 25, 2020 at 10:21 UTC
One of the following is true: ~~A module compiled with 5.8.6 works with Perl 5.8.3, all else being equal.~~ A module compiled with 5.8.3 works with Perl 5.8.6, all else being equal. I don't remember which. Maybe someone can remind me? The point is that a module for the wrong version might still work for you. (Oops, was meant to be a reply to the OP.)	[reply]
Re^3: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 25, 2020 at 13:53 UTC
AIUI, an extension compiled with 5.x.a is guaranteed to work with 5.x.b if and only if a <= b && $Config{archname} has not changed. So, yes - a build of Time::Piece that was compiled with perl-5.8.3 should be fine with perl-5.8.6. It's highly unlikely that Windows builds of perl-5.8.3 and perl-5.8.6 would differ in $Config{archname}. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 26, 2020 at 15:25 UTC
Re^5: Installing a missing module - Perl 5.8.3 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2020 at 23:39 UTC


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