Re: XML under ActiveState Perl for 64-bit Windows

Randy Kobes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 May 2009, John Dlugosz wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 May 2009, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> > Try to get it to work, XML::LibXML is really worth it. Do you have
>> > any specific issues with PPM?
>>
>> Only what it says in the documentation:
>>       Note: ActiveState does not maintain PPM repositories for AIX,
>>             Solaris x86, Windows x86_64, or Linux x86_64. Use the CPAN
>>             shell to install perl modules on these platforms.
>
> There are 64-bit PPM repositories for ActivePerl 5.10 on Windows, Linux,
> and Solaris on Sparc, but not for ActivePerl 5.8.
>
> They don't contain XML::LibXML though, as this would require some additional
> tweaking of the build system to make the libxml libraries available.
>
> Send me a reminder near the end of the month and I'll see if I can find
> some time to teach the PPM build machines how to do it.

Something I've been asked about, and was wondering myself, since I
don't have a 64 bit machine to play with - would a ppm package:
      http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML
built on a 32 bit machine work on a 64 bit machine (in principle)? For
XML::LibXML, this would mean the external libxml2 library, as well as
the perl glue, that goes into making the ppm package would have to be
compatible.

-- 
best regards,
Randy
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