Hi there,
I have just been getting into the wonderful programming language that
is PERL, having used things like Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro and even
BASIC and COBOL professionally!
I stumbled across CPAN whilst looking for a program to control a modem.
I have struggled (and failed) in getting the Device::Modem module to
work. Despite studying all the online material I could find, I am still
perplexed at how to install CPAN modules properly on ActivePerl on
Windows XP.
I have written programs to successfully interface using the ActivePerl
SMTP and POP3 PERL modules, but have hit a brick wall with CPAN ones.
Specifically my problems are these:
1 - I have played about with the CPAN program which does seem to
wonderfully do something, if I issue the "install Device::Modem"
command. It goes away and appears to get all the relevent stuff from
the Internet, unpack it and install the package - but where? Indeed
doing it again in CPAN gives "Device::Modem is up to date."
I tried to use it in my program, and get:
"Can't locate Device/Modem.pm in @INC", (I'm using the default @INC of
c:/perl/lib and c:/perl/site/lib) this led me to the second problem....
2 - I copied the source down individually (finding the relevent
dependencies one-by-one) and saved the relevent .pm in the correct
folder under c:/perl/site/lib, but hit another wall with API.pm giving
a "Can't locate loadable object for module Win32::API in @INC", despite
the fact it exists, it's obviously telling me something else, but what?
In summary, could someone tell me:
1 - In simple, step-by-step terms, how I can use the CPAN program to
install modules, and use them in my programs.
2 - What's wrong with my API.pm?
I'm looking forward eagerly to your replies!
Cheers
Andy Burgess
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