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RE: MinGW - additional question from relative newbie

From: Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com>
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:45:43 -0700
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Greg Aiken wrote:
> > The problem is that my main computer is not direct connected to the> internet, so I cant issue a 'ppm install MinGW' command.> > Does anyone know of a step by step manual installation/configuration> sequence that one may follow to manually install MinGW to an ActivePerl> computer?  In a way where it will be able to install modules that require> 'xs' code compilation?  Where I can download all required files from my> internet-connected PC, then copy them to my non-internet-connected PC, and> manually do this installation and configuration.

You need to download the following 4 files:

http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1006/-/--/MINGW/dmake-4.11.20080107.ppd
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1006/-/--/MINGW/dmake-4.11.20080107.tar.gz
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1006/-/--/MINGW/MinGW-5.1.4.1.ppd
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.10/1006/-/--/MINGW/MinGW-5.1.4.1.tar.gz

Put all of them into a single directory on the target computer and
install them (dmake fist, followed by MinGW):

    ppm install dmake-4.11.20080107.ppd
    ppm install MinGW-5.1.4.1.ppd

Don't worry about the download URL above; these PPM packages will install
correctly into any ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 818 and later and all 5.10 versions.
As usual, latest released ActivePerl versions recommended.

Make sure you have C:\Perl\site\bin in your PATH in addition to the
regular C:\Perl\bin (the installer should have done this for you
automatically).  You need to use "dmake", not "make" or "nmake" with
MinGW.

That should be it.  Let us know if you run into any problems.

Cheers,
-Jan

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