Re: winXP

[Mitch Kutzko <mitch@ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

At 12:58 PM 10/12/2005 +0200, Rosario Lombardo wrote:
> Hi,
> does anybody know how to run beaconv1.3 on Windows XP?
> 
> Thanks,
> \\Rosario

Hi, Rosario -- The Beacon is a Perl script, supported by a C library and
the makefiles and autoconf machinery neccesary to build and install the
library.  

If you install a WinXP-compatible version of Perl to your machine, and make
sure the required Perl modules are all available:

	Time::HiRes
	Getopt::Long
	IO::Socket
	IO::Select
	Net::Domain
	Sys::Hostname
	Net::Multicast::Beacon

Time::HiRes is the only one, I think, that doesn't come standard with most
Perl installations, and Net::Multicast::Beacon will be built for you when
you make the included libraries in the Beacon.

If you can get all that put together, then Beacon should run fine.

Mitch
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