Installing modules with Strawberry Perl 5.16.2.2 (64bit)

Question

I used to use activestate perl, but moved to strawberry perl just now because I want to install those less common used packages. However I'm having problems installing modules with Strawberry Perl 5.16.2.2 (64bit) on my Windows 7.

Having installed Strawberry Perl, I verified that perl is working fine (ref 1). However installing modules is a different story. According to the README,

"2. install additional perl modules (libraries) from http://www.cpan.org/ by

 c:\> cpan Module::Name"

But this is what I got:

 C:\>cpan
 Can't locate App/Cpan.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys /usr/
 lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
 .8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /d/sberry/perl/bin/cpan line 6.
 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /d/sberry/perl/bin/cpan line 6.

Then I tried to config CPAN myself, via "perl -MCPAN -e shell", But this is what I got:

 Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip]
 Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar]
 Where is your unzip program? [/bin/unzip]
 Warning: make not found in PATH
 Where is your make program? []

But I tested, and I do can run "make" from DOS command line.

So, anyone can help me out here?

Thanks

ref 1:

C:>perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=msys, osvers=1.0.11(0.4632), archname=msys uname='msys_nt-5.1 chomsky 1.0.11(0.4632) 2007-07-29 17:16 i686 unknown ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=unde f useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fnative-struct -fno-strict-alias ing -pipe', optimize='-O3 -s -mcpu=pentium', cppflags='-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fnative-struct -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe'

ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3-1', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize

=4 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='ld2', ldflags =' -s' libpth=/usr/lib /lib libs= perllibs= libc=/usr/lib/libmsys-1.0.dll.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -s' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MYMALLOC PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Built under msys Compiled at Jan 16 2008 13:18:22 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/msys /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .

Answer 1

Alright, Strawberry Perl does correctly setup my environments (PATH, etc). I did a remove and re-install to confirm it.

Just that Strawberry Perl put its path to the end of PATH setting, which caused problem for me because my Git Extension+ has Perl as well and comes before Strawberry Perl in PATH.

Answer 2

Have you tried cpnap? (CPANPLUS)?

In my opinion, it's more user-friendly, and offers more functionality, than cpan