From:	Sisyphus	Date:	Tue Apr 15 07:32:45 2008
Subject:	Re: Win32 pm won't install through PPM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "doc" <david.daugherty@gmail.com>
To: <libwin32@perl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:36 AM
Subject: Win32 pm won't install through PPM


> I'm using PPM to download and install on XP Pro the Win32 pm and it
> comes up with a path error
> ERROR: 500 Cannot write to 'C:\DOCUME~1\regbuild\LOCALS~1\Temp\ppm-
> ZriaEM/Win32-x86-multi-thread-5.8/Win32-0.34.tgz': No such file or
> directory

What command did you run ?
ActivePerl already has Win32 installed - though, on perl 5.8 (build 822) 
it's only version 0.3. Perl 5.10 (ActiveState build1002) ships with 
Win32-0.34.

I couldn't find a ppm package for version 0.34 (or 0.35) that's suitable for 
perl 5.8. Is the version of Win32 that you already have (0.3) unsuited to 
your needs ? If so, someone (me, if necessary) could build you a ppm package 
of 0.34 (or 0.35). Let us know if that's what you want.

>
> This happens on 2 different machines. Note the '\' and '/' which is
> probably what's causing this.

No - both the '\' and '/' will work equally well as path separators. That 
won't be an issue.

>
> Is there a way to work around this? I found the tar.gz on CPAN and
> downloaded manually, but I don't know how to manually import it into
> AS Perl.
>

You'll need a C compiler to build Win32 from CPAN source.

Cheers,
Rob