Issues with installing CPAN module Date::Calc on strawberry perl in windows - windows

Question

I have been struggling in installing a CPAN module called Date::Calc on my windows machine having strawberry perl distribution(strawberry-perl-5.28.1.1-64bit). It does not give any error in any of the steps but ultimately I can't find that it has been installed. I have downloaded the module from CPAN org website and followed the steps like unzip, perl Makefile.pl, make, make test, and make installs. Please help what am I missing or where am I going wrong?
I followed following steps:
Strawberry perl(5.28.1.1-64-bit) is already installed on my machine(I installed it a month back). That is running fine.
Set PATH variable to point to perl/bin folder where the bin folder exist. First, I tried command cpan Date::Calc. It gave me errors like timeout while fetching the required files. I suspect this to be an issue with my client IT/proxy infrastructure:
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules>cpan Date::Calc
Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.212)
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.36)
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (A connection attempt
failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established c
onnection failed because connected host has failed to respond.)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\SummitTools6.1\perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp12016'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Invalid argument)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\SummitTools6.1\perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp12016'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Then I tried manually downloading the tar.gz file of the module I am interested in from metacpan.org.
Copied the file to a separate location than the strawberry perl installation.
gzip zxvf Date-Calc-6.4.tar.gz
cd Date-Calc-6.4
perl Makefile.pl
make
make test
make install
All steps ran fine but what is surprising is the last three steps as they finished in split second and printed just three lines in stdout.
make[13]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/SummitTools6.1/CPANModules/Date-Calc-6.4'
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Date-Calc-6.4>C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Date-Calc-6.4>
Also to be noted that if I run
make >> 1.txt
in order to capture it's output in a text file, it hangs in dos shell. However, meanwhile I can open the text file which shows the same content as pasted above in italics(same as being shown in standard output on terminal earlier if I do not rerout to a text file).
As it is hung, If I interrupt Ctrl+C, it shows a couple of lines like below:
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Bit-Vector-7.4>make
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Bit-Vector-7.4>
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Bit-Vector-7.4>make >> 1.txt
make[1]: *** [blib\lib\Bit/.exists] Interrupt
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Bit-Vector-7.4>Makefile:393: recipe for target 'blib\lib\Bit/.exists'
failed
make: *** [blib\lib\Bit/.exists] Interrupt
C:\SummitTools6.1\CPANModules\Bit-Vector-7.4>
As Date::Calc is dependent upon Bit::Vector module, I had to run all the same steps for Bit::Vector first followed by Date::Calc. But Got the same issues/errors/no errors for both the modules.