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Reputation: 780

minGW and cpan modules

I am trying to use the Finance::TickerSymbols module from perl(ActiveState perl) and since PPM didn't have it, I ran cpan on my minGW console to install it. the installation went fine, however, minGW seems to install the modules in

C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\ar\.cpan\build\Finance-TickerSymbols-1.03\lib\Finance\

so, when I run my perl code, I get the following error:

Can't locate Finance/TickerSymbols.pm in @INC(@INC contains C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .)

and of course the compilation fails. I can copy and paste the .pm from the mingw path, but that's not going to work for everything. Can anyone suggest how this can be fixed. thx!

EDIT: ran install for other module to provide the output of install in minGW

Running install for module Finance::Curency::Convert
    Running make for J/JA/JANW/Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08.tgz
    CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
    Fetching with LWP:
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/J/JA/JANW/CHECKSUMS
    CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
    Checksum for /home/ar/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JA/JANW/Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08.tgz ok
    Scanning cache /home/ar/.cpan/build for sizes
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/GD-2.46 <24.0>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/Finance-TickerSymbols-1.03 <23.5>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/GDTextUtil-0.86 <23.4>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/GDGraph-1.44 <23.2>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/Date-Simple-3.03 <22.6>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/HTML-TableExtract-2.11 <22.4>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/Text-CSV-1.21 <22.2>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.59 <21.9>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/YAML-Syck-1.17 <19.1>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/Test-Inter-1.03 <18.2>10.0 MB>
    Deleting from cache: /home/ar/.cpan/build/Date-Manip-6.25 <18.0>10.0 MB>
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/MANIFEST
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/t/
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/t/convert.t
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/Makefile.PL
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/Changes
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/META.yml
    Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08/Convert.pm
    CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JA/JANW/Finance-Currency-Convert-1.08.tgz
    Checking if your kit is complete...
    Looks good
    Writing Makefile for Finance::Currency::Convert
    cp Convert.pm blib/lib/Finance/Currency/Convert.pm
    Autosplitting blib/lib/Finance/Currency/Convert.pm (blib/lib/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert)
    /bin/make -- OK
    Running make test
    /usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib','blib/arch')"t/*.txt
    t/convert....ok
    All tests successful.
    Files=1, Tests=8, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 cusr + 0.03 csys = 0.06 CPU)
    /bin/make/test --OK
    Running make install
    Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert/autosplit.ix
    Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert.pm
    Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert/.packlist
    Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/msys/perllocal.pod
    /bin/make/install -- OK

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4167

Answers (1)

David W.
David W.

Reputation: 107080

You need to go to the PPM and install the CPAN module.

Then, go to your command line, and run cpan. Then install Finance::TickerSymbols. ActiveState's cpan will check whether or not you need MinGW installed, and install it if necessary. After that, it will download and build the Finance::TickerSymbols module.

If that doesn't work, use the use lib pragma in your Perl script to specify the directory where these modules should be loaded from:

use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl5/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8);

Yes, that's right, the module is actually in /usr/lib/perl5. If you look at your output, you'll see that the modules are built in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\ar\.cpan\build\, but if you look at the end of the log, you'll see they're being installed in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8

Running make install
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert/autosplit.ix
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert.pm
Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/auto/Finance/Currency/Convert/.packlist
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/msys/perllocal.pod
/bin/make/install -- OK

The final thing you can do (if nothing else works) is switch to Strawberry Perl. This comes with everything you need to use the CPAN modules. It's what Larry Wall uses. Strawberry Perl has no trouble installing that module from the CPAN archive.

Upvotes: 1

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