Re: Newbie - please help me installing CPAN modules!

On 21 Oct 2005 05:51:48 -0700, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi there,


Hi Andy,

I have just been getting into the wonderful programming language that
> is PERL, having used things like Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro and even


We say "Perl" not "PERL" :)

BASIC and COBOL professionally!
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> 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


use the file search utility on your machine to find Modem.pm<http://Modem.pm>

doing it again in CPAN gives "Device::Modem is up to date."
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> I tried to use it in my program, and get:
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> "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....
>
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> 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?


I spent 5-10 minutes googling "Can't locate loadable object for module"
before I found a good source of information. It seems that the C library
part (the .dll - dynamically loadable library) was not installed. I'm
betting the docs at search.cpan.org <http://search.cpan.org> have
windows/activestate install instructions. The link below was also helpful.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/36822ad076a96681/7c0fa163446b0852%237c0fa163446b0852?sa=X&oi=groupsr&start=0&num=3

In summary, could someone tell me:
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> 1 - In simple, step-by-step terms, how I can use the CPAN program to
> install modules, and use them in my programs.


I dont know - I used Cygwin and pure Perl (non-activestate) when I used
windows.
If I went back to windows, I would use Perl under VMware.

2 - What's wrong with my API.pm?


the .dll is missing, I'm pretty sure.

I'm looking forward eagerly to your replies!
>
> Cheers
> Andy Burgess
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