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Posted on Mon Nov 13 03:50:41 2006 by cchiesa
Installation Difficulties

First, let me apologize for posting a request for help here; no offense to ROBERTMAY is intended. I have been trying to find a way to contact ROBERTMAY directly but have not been successful.

I'm having a terrible time installing Win32::GUI under ActiveState 5.6.1. My installation's CPAN module/facility (whatever) just plain doesn't work; I don't know what the problem is. PPM claims to successfully install Win32::GUI, but large chunks of the package -- such as the documentation -- are missing; even the Tutorial's "Hello GUI World" example fails to work, instead SEGV'ing when it tries to call AddLabel(). Lastly, downloading the gzip file from the Win32::GUI section of this website, the file I end up with does not contain the ".ppm" file that the README's "Installation" section says I should specify to PPM to install the package. All in all, I'm completely stumped as to how to install Win32::GUI.

Please help; please email to cchiesa1@rochester.rr.com or xet001@yahoo.com even if you also post here, in case I can't figure out how to arrange for e-mail notification of posts made here -- or in case that, too, fails to operate as expected. Administrators, feel free to delete this message... but only AFTER I come back here and report that someone has helped me and I've gotten the thing installed and working.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted on Tue Nov 14 02:38:34 2006 by robertmay in response to 3510
Re: Installation Difficulties
I'm sorry that you had so much difficulty getting in touch with me. I should get mail at any/all of my published addrsses (robertmay@cpan.org being the most relevant here). I'm also sorry that you're having difficulties with the installation - Perl 5.6.1 is still supported (just - it's many years old now), and I have a ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 installation here that appears to work just fine. If you could join and re-post a summary of your problem to perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net, then I'm sure that we can help you out - that's where most of the support for this module takes place. [I'll also email you as you requested] Regards, Rob.
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Posted on Tue Nov 14 02:46:02 2006 by robertmay in response to 3533
Re: Installation Difficulties
Oops. Should have added you can sign up to the perl-win32-gui-users mailing list at:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users
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