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problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1

by expo1967 (Sexton)
on Feb 06, 2020 at 23:48 UTC ( [id://11112522]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

expo1967 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I recently downloaded and installed activeperl 5.28.1. A number of modules I really need were not part of the installed Perl. So I signed into the activstate platform, created a project and attempted to add some packages. To my surprise every time I try to add a package it just sits there with the message "Adding ...". I have exchanged many emails with the folks at activestate about this and other issues I am having with this project/build. They said in one of their emails they could install packages into my custom project but they do not seem to have any idea on how to solve my issue of problems with adding packages. My system is a 64-bit windows 10 laptop. Has anyone else encountered this issue ? Has anyone else solved this issue ? Thanks.

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Re: problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2020 at 05:34 UTC
    I recently downloaded and installed activeperl 5.28.1

    I just grabbed the basic one (in the zip file) as I was interested to see whether they were building perl with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO. (They weren't.)
    It was pretty much useless. I thought maybe I needed to run Installer.bat, but it failed because perl didn't have a requisite module installed.
    I tried using cpan to install the missing module, but cpan fails early on with a "Free to wrong pool" error.
    I tried installing the module using ppm, but ppm doesn't exist.
    This one really amuses me:
    C:\>perl -V:cc cc='undef';
    WRT my aims and the uses I have for perl, this distro is rubbish .... but maybe there's some documentation somewhere that explains how to turn it into something that I would deem useful.
    Even if it can moulded into something reasonable, it's still not going to be any better than Strawberry.

    Cheers,
    Rob

      I tried installing the module using ppm, but ppm doesn't exist.

      Yuup , http://code.activestate.com/ppm/CGI/ says

      Notice! PPM is being replaced with the ActiveState Platform, which enhances PPM’s build and deploy capabilities. Create your free Platform account to download ActivePerl or customize Perl with the packages you require and get automatic updates.

      There are no packages listed for perls higher than Perl 5.24

      Although, platform.activestate.com...ActivePerl-5.28/customize does allow you to add a ppm package... but

      Dang, unable to build! We were unable to build the distributions for this project because... No version of language/perl Compress-Raw-Zlib satisfies dependency language/perl Compress::Raw::Zlib >= 2.92 (of requirement language/perl ActiveState-Utils == 2.11), requirement language/perl Compress-Raw-Zlib == 2.7.6

      Whatever

        Even if it were to work as intended, it would still look to me like a very ill-advised business plan.
        It's not often that one comes across a free service that feels like it's overpriced ... but that's the feeling I'm getting with this.

        Cheers,
        Rob

        All the more reason to use Strawberry with cpanm/cpan.

Re: problem with packages for custom build of activeperl 5.28.1
by stevieb (Canon) on Feb 07, 2020 at 00:07 UTC
    "Has anyone else solved this issue ?"

    Yes, countless people avoid these installation issues by installing Strawberry Perl instead of ActivePerl.

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