[Catalyst] Installing Catalyst on WinXP

[Carl Franks]

On 10/05/06, Maurice Height <mauriceh at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I have not been able to install Catalyst on WinXP/Activestate Perl
> v5.8.8/Build 817.  I guess this question has been asked before...

There's been reports that ActivePerl 5.8.8 is flakey, and you should use 5.8.7

Do you have a compiler though? If not, you'll not get far trying to
install modules with cpan.

I use VanillaPerl which comes with the mingw/gnu compiler.
download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=158775&package_id=178164
homepage: http://camelpack.sourceforge.net/index.php/VanillaPerl

Carl