Installing Mojolicious on Windows

[Bryan]

I am curious to know if anyone has been successful installing with ActiveState Perl on Windows.  I messed around for quite a few hours today trying to get it working.  I installed MinGW and still no success.  MinGW is not a straightforward setup and "perl -MCPAN -e shell" never could find gcc even though it was in my PATH.

Interestingly, I installed Strawberry Perl and ran "cpan Mojo::DOM" and it installed in seconds.  Since Strawberry ships with gcc and make I am not sure I'll ever need to go back to ActiveState Perl.  But, I am interested to know if installation is possible in the event I need to install it in the future.

Cheers!

[Joel Berger]

While I don't use Windows myself (hopefully someone else can give personal experience), I am curious about the problems that you see on ActiveState? Are you using CPAN.pm or are you using PPM (http://code.activestate.com/ppm/Mojolicious/)? Can you post some output? I don't know how well CPAN.pm works on AS though I thought it had improved since Strawberry raised the bar.

I don't think very many people (any?) use MinGW directly for their Perl, though maybe I could be wrong.

When I do have to use Windows I use Strawberry, though probably the next time around I will be looking at WSL, assuming it have windows 10. WSL is going to become near mandatory for me to personally consider Windows jobs soon.

[Paolo Saudin]

I now use Strawberry on Windows 10, but I still have some old pc with ActiveState on them. In those case I install packages via PPM, and always worked for me. I never used MinGW.

-- windows

ppm install Mojolicious

ppm install Mojolicious-Plugin-Authentication

ppm install -f Mojolicious-Plugin-Authorization

ppm install DBI

ppm install DBIx-Connector

Paolo

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[Bryan]

Thank you Paolo.  That is helpful.  I should have tried ppm and not sure why I didn't since I normally use it.

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[Bryan]

Apologies for not being more clear in the ticket yesterday.  I was putting out fires at work and a little unfocused.  I am not a Windows user either which may be part of my problem ;-)  I have deleted ActiveState from my system so I cannot post output.  I was using CPAN.pm.  Here is what I was using:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mojo

About 2/3s into the install the shell would begin throwing errors about gcc not being found.  I could execute gcc from the command line without fully qualifying the location since it was in my user path.  Once I installed Strawberry Perl the install completed flawlessly (and very quickly).
Not to knock ActiveState but Strawberry is open source and it includes gcc and make.  I recommend adding a short blurb to the FAQ that the Strawberry distro works well and all that is required for install is this command:

$ cpan Mojolicious

or if installing a subset

$ cpan Mojo::DOM

I have not tried subprocesses on Windows nor do I intend to do so.  That is clearly in the realm of Linux.