Re^3: Windows installation woes

I could even get momentarily the necessary admin rights to install strawberry-there is no objection to having perl running on my corporate machine.

If you grab a "portable" edition of Strawberry Perl, you can just install it into your user directory - no admin rights required. That would be my recommendation.
Just download the perl-5.32.1 "Portable" edition (there's a choice of 32-bit or 64-bit, with most people opting for the latter) from https://strawberryperl.com/releases.html.
Unpack the tarball into some directory (let's call it "Strawberry") in your user space.
Then cd to that "Strawberry" folder and execute portableshell.bat. You're then set to go with strawberry perl.

Strawberry provides you with its own gmake.exe and gcc toolchain - and portableshell.bat has already prepended the location of those needed tools to your PATH environment variable.

You could then download the Tk source tarball to some location in your user directory, cd to that location and run 'cpan .' (without the quotes).
This means that the cpan utility does not have to perform the download (which was problematic for you).

If you're uncomfortable about using the gmake.exe provided by Strawberry (in c/bin) then let us know and we'll tell you how to get set up with dmake.exe (which is the make utlity that Strawberry used to use, and should still work fine.)
It's best if you could use that gmake.exe that Strawberry provides - with dmake.exe there might be a couple of hoops to jump through, though it should still be readily do-able.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^4: Windows installation woes by chafelix (Novice) on Nov 03, 2021 at 12:11 UTC
I have strawberry installed. So I can run perl (without modules such as Tk) I'm not sure dmake would actually be allowed C:\perladdons>dir Volume in drive C is OS Volume Serial Number is 22FB-140E Directory of C:\perladdons 03/11/2021 01:56 μμ <DIR> . 03/11/2021 01:56 μμ <DIR> .. 03/11/2021 08:55 πμ <DIR> Tk-804.036 14/02/2021 02:43 μμ 30.709.760 tk.tar 02/11/2021 11:44 πμ 7.024.993 Tk.tar.gz (I renamed the .tar and .tar.gz files as plain Tk). Not sure if you mean running cpan . from the directory of the tarball (perladdons) on the unzipped directory, but in both cases it fails on authentication. So : C:\perladdons\Tk-804.036>cpan . Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging You are visiting the local directory '.' without lock, take care that concurrent processes do not do likewise. CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.52) Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code407 messageProxy Authentication Required ( Forefront TMG requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied. ) And from the Tk directory: C:\perladdons\Tk-804.036>cpan . Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging You are visiting the local directory '.' without lock, take care that concurrent processes do not do likewise. CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.52) Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code407 messageProxy Authentication Required ( Forefront TMG requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy filter is denied. ) Proxy authentication needed!	[reply]
Re^5: Windows installation woes by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 03, 2021 at 12:40 UTC
`cpan .` doesn't do what you think it does. You likely want to do `cpanm .` from within the directory of an untar'd distro. Regardless, you're going to have to configure these tools to deal with your proxy should you wish them to do dependency resolution. CPAN Behind Firewalls, set the appropriate environment variables and these tools will work.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Windows installation woes by chafelix (Novice) on Nov 03, 2021 at 13:12 UTC
As you predicted cpanm . also failed because... This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator. gmake: *** Makefile:524: blibdirs Error 1	[reply]
Re^7: Windows installation woes by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 03, 2021 at 20:13 UTC
Re^8: Windows installation woes by soonix (Canon) on Nov 04, 2021 at 10:27 UTC
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Re^7: Windows installation woes by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 03, 2021 at 13:15 UTC
Re^7: Windows installation woes by bliako (Monsignor) on Nov 04, 2021 at 11:04 UTC
Re^8: Windows installation woes by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 04, 2021 at 11:13 UTC
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