Re: winXP

[Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Mitch Kutzko wrote:

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

Note "supported by a C library".

This means you need a C compiler, not just Perl, plus you need "make",
and I imagine the right kind of glue that will compile loadable Perl
modules. This is IMO much more work than just installing a couple
of CPAN modules and going "perl Makelfile.PL ; make install", and
not something I would care to try.

But if you succeed, I've no doubt the entire multicast community will be
ever so grateful ... :-)

BTW, Ivan Judson made a Python package still available at
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~judson/common-1.0.win32-py2.3.exe
but I never got it to work properly (I'm not that good with Python, or
Windows for that matter ..)

(message dated 19 Oct 2004 on the ag-tech list)



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