dmake not found

slugger415 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I have a CGI script running on a web server that works fine, until I add the Archive::Extract module. Then I get this error in the browser when loading the script:

dmake could not be found on the PATH. Please invoke it using the full 
+pathname:

    C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe

or put the Perl\site\bin directory on the PATH with:

    path C:\Perl\site\bin;%PATH%
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C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe is indeed in my path (first thing, in fact). Any idea what's causing this problem? I also have Archive::Zip which isn't causing the problem. Here's the top of my script:

#! /Perl/bin/perl

use CGI;
use CGI::Pretty;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use POSIX;
use File::Basename;
use File::Copy;
use File::Path;
use File::Find;
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
use Archive::Extract;
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thanks

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Re: dmake not found by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 06, 2012 at 17:53 UTC
C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe is indeed in my path It's not `C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe` that needs to be in your path - you need `C:\Perl\site\bin` instead. (Maybe that's already the case ... it's a little unclear.) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: dmake not found by slugger415 (Monk) on Feb 06, 2012 at 20:17 UTC
Yes, I meant c:\perl\site\bin, thanks.	[reply]
Re: dmake not found by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 06, 2012 at 18:31 UTC
Do you actually have a file named `C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe`? Is the directory in which it resides accessible by the user as which the web browser executes? Is it executable by the user as which the web browser executes? Is `C:\Perl\site\bin` in the web server's path? It's very odd that make is required at run-time, but I'm not familiar with the module in question and its dependencies.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: dmake not found by slugger415 (Monk) on Feb 06, 2012 at 20:38 UTC
Yes there is a file called C:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe. I don't know the answer to your next two question. I installed ActivePerl and didn't change anything. C:\Perl\site\bin is in the system path on Windows XP; don't know about the web server's path. How can I check that? thank you.	[reply]
Re^3: dmake not found by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2012 at 01:00 UTC
don't know about the web server's path. How can I check that? Upload a cgi script to the web server that outputs `$ENV{PATH}` and then run it. But, as others have mentioned, it seems very strange that anything should want to find dmake. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re: dmake not found by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2012 at 17:59 UTC
Archive::Extract does not require make at run-time, so I find this error very odd. How did you add Archive::Extract? Give a precise description.	[reply]
Re^2: dmake not found by slugger415 (Monk) on Feb 06, 2012 at 20:19 UTC
> How did you add Archive::Extract? Give a precise description. I ran ppm, selected it from the list and ran the install. I wonder if I should reinstall it from another repository. thanks	[reply]
Re: dmake not found by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2013 at 21:50 UTC
For me the problem disappeared, when I renamed C:\Perl64\site\bin\dmake.exe to C:\Perl64\site\bin\dmake.exe_ I don't want to have C:\Perl64\site\bin in my path... Could it be, that the dmake.exe was installed, when I tried to install the Template module directly from cpan?	[reply]

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