- Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop + Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
- Perl x86 or x64
- MSYS (I'm linking to this version but you can use ANY MSYS, it's possible to use MSYS from MozillaBuild but it's really ancient)
- This script
You must paste my script to directory above your Perl installation. Script was written for Perl installed in MozillaBuild directory: C:\mozilla-build\perl-5.18\x64 or \x86, so script must be in perl-5.18 dir, if your Perl installation dir is in another place you must edit PATHs in lines 13 & 16.
MSYS can be extracted to any directory you want, you just need to edit PATH in SET MSYS=I:\MSYS\bin, fg. SET MSYS=C:\MSYS\bin
To use script you must open cmd (Win+R, type cmd), navigate to directory where you pasted cpan.bat. Type cpan.bat x86 if you're using 32bit Hexchat & Perl or cpan.bat x64 for 64bit version. After that you can use all cpan commands.
To start building Perl modules you need to download and install this software (in their default install paths):
- MozillaBuild or direct link
- Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop + Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
- Perl x86 or x64 (Perl MUST be installed to C:\Perl)
Start MozillaBuild console (it's in C:\mozilla-build) start-msvc11.bat (if you're using Hexchat x86) or start-msvc11-x64.bat (if you're using Hexchat x64).
Type:
mkdir perl; cd perl
(we will work in perl directory).
All Perl modules can be downloaded from CPAN site.
Now we can download the module which can be done using wget http://link command. Later we extract it using tar -zxvf module.tar.gz.
In this guide we will build Net::Telnet module. So we are downloading it and extracting:
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JR/JROGERS/Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz
tar -zxvf Net-Telnet-3.03.tar.gz
Type cd Net-Telnet-3.03 and we can start building.
This building method isn't perfect so if you're building modue which depends on other module, you need to build it before repeating all steps in this guide.
Fist thing we must do is to configure module and point it to our Perl installation using:
c:/perl/bin/perl.exe Makefile.pl
Note: It really depends if it is Makefile.pl or Build.pl, just check in folder and read README.
You should get something like this:
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Net::Telnet
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
It means that module was properly configured. Now we can move to compilation which can be done using:
nmake
After it we can install module using:
nmake install
Now if you didn't get any error you should have Perl module installed and it can be used with Perl script in Hexchat.
Whole operation should look like this:
