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Unable to install LWP::Simple on cygwin

I am a Perl beginner trying to install LWP::Simple on cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.3) but it fails to install. The installation seems to go wrong from the very start. Could you please help me to fix the problem?

$ perl -MCPAN -e'install "LWP::Simple"'

Going to read '/home/grw.kremilek/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:53:17 GMT
Running install for module 'LWP::Simple'
Running make for M/MS/MSCHILLI/libwww-perl-6.08.tar.gz
Checksum for /home/grw.kremilek/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHILLI/libwww-perl-6.08.tar.gz ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSCHILLI/libwww-perl-6.08.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Warning: prerequisite Encode::Locale 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite File::Listing 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTML::Entities 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTML::HeadParser 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Cookies 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Daemon 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Date 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Negotiate 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Request 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Request::Common 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Response 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Status 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite LWP::MediaTypes 6 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Net::HTTP 6.07 not found.
Warning: prerequisite URI 1.10 not found.
Warning: prerequisite URI::Escape 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite WWW::RobotRules 6 not found.
Writing Makefile for LWP
Writing MYMETA.yml
---- Unsatisfied dependencies detected during ----
----     MSCHILLI/libwww-perl-6.08.tar.gz     ----
    URI::Escape [requires]
    LWP::MediaTypes [requires]
    Encode::Locale [requires]
    HTTP::Status [requires]
    File::Listing [requires]
    HTTP::Negotiate [requires]
    HTML::Entities [requires]
    HTTP::Daemon [requires]
    Net::HTTP [requires]
    URI [requires]
    HTML::HeadParser [requires]
    HTTP::Cookies [requires]
    HTTP::Request::Common [requires]
    HTTP::Date [requires]
    HTTP::Response [requires]
    HTTP::Request [requires]
    WWW::RobotRules [requires]
Running make test
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running make install
  Delayed until after prerequisites
Running install for module 'URI::Escape'
Running make for E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.64.tar.gz
Checksum for /home/grw.kremilek/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/URI-1.64.tar.gz ok
Solution

  • There is a cygwin package for LWP: perl-libwww-perl

    If you need HTTPS you should probably install: perl-LWP-Protocol-https