comment on

Hi everyone,

My end goal is to install Net::POP3 on my Windows machine, but Perl Package Manager does not have it available (not sure why).

So, I tried to install via CPAN. But then I saw that it wasn't able to find nmake. CPAN returned this error: 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I went to look for nmake, but I found that provided links to Microsoft download were broken, and that it seems that you have to install some very large package of software to get it. And I am not sure which package.

So I tried to use dmake instead. It is installed, but still when I run install Net::POP3 it is trying to use nmake.

Is there some way to force CPAN to use dmake instead? I have entered the relevant path in the PATH env variable.

Thanks!
Stu

In reply to using dmake instead of nmake on Windows by fourmajor

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


Just another Perl shrine
	PerlMonks