[Maypole] Maypole on Windows success

Simon Cozens simon@simon-cozens.org
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:58:22 +0000


Here, for posterity, is a log of actions I took to get a Maypole application
up and running on a bare Windows machine. It can probably be done a lot
simpler, and some of the modules I installed are specific to the application,
but it proves it can be done:

Install Perl: http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/ActivePerl-5.8.6.811-MSWin32-x86-122208.msi
Install vim: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/vim63w32.zip
Install nmake: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe
Install pscp
Install 4nt
ppm3
  rep add theoryx5 http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/
  Install XML-LibXSLT
  Install Class-DBI
  Install DBD-SQLite
  rep add interact http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages
  Install Template-Toolkit
  Install UNIVERSAL-exports
  Install SQL-Statement
  Install Test-MockModule
  Install XML-TreeBuilder
  Install File-Slurp
  Install Module-Build

cpan
 install CPANPLUS
 get Class::DBI (0.96 is later than ppm version)

cpanp
 install Class::DBI::SQLite
 install Template::Plugin::Class
 install Maypole
                       
-- 
WILLIAM: Just incidentally -- why are you wearing that?
SPIKE: Ahm -- combination of factors really. No clean clothes...
W: There never will be, you know, unless you actually clean your clothes.
S: Right.  Vicious circle.