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# Copyright 2006.  VMware, Inc.  The use of this code is subject to 
# your agreement to the terms of an applicable VMware license.
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VixPerl

INSTALLATION

The generic process for installing this module is the following:

$ tar xvf vix-perl.tar
$ cd vix-perl
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make install

The above procedure works for Linux, assuming your perl installation 
is correct.  Most distributions have all tools installed and correctly
configured by default.

For Windows, you will need a perl installation, a way to uncompress 
tar archives (most zip programs will do so) and a C build environment.  
Most likely, your build environment is an install of Visual Studio - 
if you have another build environment (e.g. cygwin, or independently 
downloaded build tools), your build process will be different.

If you are using Visual Studio, start a Visual Studio build shell 
(Visual Studio installs a small script that starts a shell with 
all appropriate environment variables defined) and follow this 
procedure:

> (decompress vix-perl.tar)
> perl Makefile.PL
> nmake
> nmake install

Because this module is distributed as source, you can specify your
own arguments at any of these steps (e.g. optimization or debugging 
flags, override install directories).

There are several other ways to build; see the perl document 
perlmodinstall for more ideas.
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmodinstall.html


Perl Version Note:
This package has been tested against perl 5.8.1 on Linux and 5.8.0 on 
Windows.  No advanced perl features are present, so this package should
work with older versions of perl - but has not been tested at all 
against anything before 5.8.0.
