I added the CPAN version of
PPM
to Strawberry Perl - this required
XML-Parser
and
SOAP-Lite,
both of which installed successfully. For XML-Parser,
I used a version of the
expat library
compiled with VC++ 6. A small patch:
--- PPM.pm.orig 2007-12-29 18:00:03.234375000 -0600
+++ PPM.pm 2007-12-29 17:59:58.218750000 -0600
@@ -113,8 +113,10 @@
# add -5.d to archname for Perl >= 5.8
my $varchname = $Config{archname};
-if (length($^V) && ord(substr($^V,1)) >= 8) {
- $varchname .= sprintf("-%d.%d", ord($^V), ord(substr($^V,1)));
+if ($] >= 5.008) {
+ my $vstring = sprintf "%vd", $^V;
+ $vstring =~ s/\.\d+$//;
+ $varchname .= "-$vstring";
}
#
was needed for
PPM.pm to get it to correctly
append "-5.10" to the architecture string
MSWin32-x86-multi-thread.
I then installed via the ppm client the
GD ppm package from the
UWinnipeg Perl 5.10 repository, which worked fine.
Update: If anyone wants to try this out, I've placed
an archive of the files needed for installing ppm up at
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/strawberry-perl-ppm.tar.gz;
to install this, save it to the C:\strawberry
directory and unpack it there. You may have to edit
C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\ppm.xml to change at
least the value of BUILDDIR, indicating the temporary directory which ppm uses to build things.
There's a command-line utility, ppm, supplied; type
help within the ppm shell to get a list of available options.