configuration issues with perl on xampp

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Am new to perl and its working under windows(using xampp 1.7.4 ).

Am trying to use perl to send email (using gmail smtp).The issue is that i seem to have successfully installed Net-SMTP-SSL with ppm so i was expecting it under c:\\xampp\perl\bin but it seems to have gone under 'c:\xampp\perl\site\lib'.
now when running my script i am getting this :

Can't locate Net/SMTP/SSL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cy gwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl 5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vend or_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/l ib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at getbalanceWindows.pl line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at getbalanceWindows.pl line 5.

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1 Answers

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That's because you're running it under Cygwin.

Using ActiveState ppm will make it available to cmd.exe, not Cygwin.

A couple of options here:

  1. Use cmd.exe

  2. Install Net::SMTP::SSL via cpan to make it available to Cygwin

    $ cpan Net::SMTP::SSL

    or

    $ perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Net::SMTP::SSL");'

Side Note

Does XAMPP necessitate the use of Cygwin? Methinks not, but I may be wrong.