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  PPM> repository
  PPM> quit
  C:\>

Not all of the Perl modules you may want (i.e. mod_perl) are available from
ActiveState, so you should know about a second popular repository for PPM 
files.  Take a look at the following web pages.

  http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/
  http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/

To add this repository to the list for the ppm shell utility to
search, do the following.

  C:\> ppm
  PPM> repository add theoryx5 http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58
  PPM> repository add officevision http://www.officevision.com/pub/ppm/           # for App::Options, App::Build, App::Context, etc.
  PPM> quit
  C:\>

You may also want to add the following repositories if you don't find what you want
on those other repositories.

  PPM> repository add crazyinsomniac http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/ # for various hard to find modules
  PPM> repository add bribes http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/                      # for various hard to find modules
  PPM> repository add gtk2 http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/ppm/            # for GTK2
  PPM> repository add log4perl http://log4perl.sourceforge.net/ppm/               # for log4perl
  PPM> repository add openi http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/      # for Template Toolkit

The following commands are to install some packages which are
useful in order to develop or run applications based on the App-Context Framework.

(Sometimes a module will fail to install because more than one version of it was found.
You may need to follow up any such "install XYZ::ABC" module with a command like "install 1"
which selects one of the versions found. Sometimes even this will fail, saying that the
module is already installed.  In that case, you may need to type something like
"install 1 -force -nofollow".  Sometimes you need to "search XYZ::ABC" before you do the
"install 1 -force -nofollow".)

  C:\> ppm
  PPM> install TimeDate                # Date::Parse and Date::Format
  PPM> install Module::Build
  PPM> install App::Build
  PPM> install App::Options
  PPM> install XML::Simple
  PPM> install XML::XPath
  PPM> quit
  C:\>

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=head1 NMAKE

The PPM method for installing software is described above.  However, the method of
installing software which is most native to Perl is through the CPAN shell.
In order for this to work, you need a "make" tool.  Microsoft provides "nmake" for
this purpose.

I found reference to "nmake" on Microsoft's site here.

  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;132084

Then I downloaded the most recent version (a self-extracting archive) here.

  http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/patch/1.52/w95/en-us/nmake15.exe

After saving it on your disk, run the program to extract three files.

  README.TXT
  NMAKE.EXE
  NMAKE.ERR

Move these files to C:\Perl\bin.  This should put them in the PATH so that
they will be found by the CPAN shell.

=head1 MYSQL

Install a Windows binary distribution of MySQL.
Use a version of MySQL which is compatible with your Apache setup.

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/windows-installation.html

On March 13, 2006, the latest version of MySQL is 5.0.19.
I download and install the "Windows Essentials (x86)" binary distribution.

  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Based on whatever password you entered in the configuration (instead of
"xyzabc" shown below), enter something like the following in a new file
named "C:\windows\my.cnf".

  [client]
  host            = localhost
  port            = 3306
  user            = root
  password        = xyzabc
  [mysql]
  database        = test

Then from the Windows command shell, you can type "mysql" and get
in to the database directly.

=head1 APACHE AND MOD_PERL: METHOD 1

I recommend the all-in-one Apache/mod_perl/PHP/phpMyAdmin approach.

  http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

I downloaded the "XAMPP for Windows 1.5.1 [basic package]" Installer
and the "XAMPP for Windows Add-Ons : Perl 5.8.7-2.2.0-pl2" Installer.

=head1 APACHE AND MOD_PERL: METHOD 2

You could download a binary distribution of Apache for Windows from apache.org.
Then install mod_perl.

  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/
  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

See the following sites for mod_perl.