Activestate Perl/Tk for Windows XP, installing CPAN modules

[bvforth]

Hi!

I wrote some programs in Perl which used Tk on a Mac (OS X 10.4), and then tried to run them on a Windows XP comp (Perl 5.10.0, ActiveState version) and of course it couldn't run since I didn't have Tk installed. Did some research and found out that apparently ActiveState used to include Tk (until version 5.8 maybe?) but stopped.........

This led to a couple of questions that I'm having trouble with:

1. What's the best way to install CPAN modules on Windows? I'm just used to doing 'perl Makefile.PL;make test;make install;make clean;' on OS X/Linux but I don't seem to have make on Windows and am not familiar enough with doing such things on Windows to know of any alternatives.

2. If Tk is no longer supported (or, at least, no longer supported as much), what's the most commonly used alternative? Okay, sorry, that's a subjective question, but I just thought that Tk was relatively cross-platform and cross-language, and I don't know what's replacing it.

Thanks for the help!

[misson]

You can use PPM to install additional packages, including Tk and packages from CPAN. ActivePerl also includes a CPAN shell to install any packages not available through PPM.