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bhagperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

Good Day to everyone !! I seek a solution to my problem on installing CGI::Session on windows. I am unable to build the source for CGI::Session and i get error as:

syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755' ]" Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff' Stop.

Please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: CGI::Session for Windows
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 05, 2011 at 12:07 UTC

    You're using the wrong make for your build of perl, so use what perl -V:make reports

    Or tell Makefile.PL to use nmake perl Makefile.PL MAKE=NMAKE

    Or you need to upgrade ExtUtils::MakeMaker and its dependencies

    Or use Build.PL instead 

    perl Build.PL
Build test
Build install

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      Hi Everyone,

      I am very happy that both Build.pl and perl Makefile.PL MAKE=NMAKE worked !!! I am very Thankful to you for resolving my problem so fast :)

      Thanks Monks !

      Also is there any resource to know more on building packages and configuration stuffs. I will be very happy to know !!

      Have nice day !!
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        One or more of the following may be of interest to you. Either use perldocmanpage from the commandline or link from http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html (under the Reference Manual section). 

            perlmod         Perl modules: how they work
    perlmodlib      Perl modules: how to write and use
    perlmodstyle    Perl modules: how to write modules with style
    perlmodinstall  Perl modules: how to install from CPAN
    perlnewmod      Perl modules: preparing a new module for distribut
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Re: CGI::Session for Windows
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 05, 2011 at 12:08 UTC
    syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755' ]"

    Could you provide the output produced by running 
    perl -V

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    Cheers,
    Rob
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