Installing a perl module from CPAN on XAMPP for Windows

Question

I\'m pretty rusty with Perl and I don\'t think it\'s helping that I\'m running it in Windows.

I\'d like to install this module. I tried the instructions here to inst

Answer 1

XAMPP also ships with PPM in C:\xampp\perl\bin\ppm.bat which is often a more Windows friendly way to get modules for perl.

There's a step by step example of using ppm with XAMPP here: http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?t=26407

Many modules are already installed in C:\xampp\perl\lib and C:\xampp\perl\site\lib

Answer 2

1. manually download and unpack the distro archive
2. change into the unpacked directory
3. run cpanm . or cpan .