Defining the C environment for "inline::c"

[murrayn]

This ought to be a simple one but I've burned half a day going around circular hyperlinks trying to make it work so I some seeking the wisdom of the monks. I'm running Activstate Perl on Windows 7 (using Eclipse as my IDE). I have some vendor code as C dlls (and Linux .so files for later on). Today I installed mingw gcc C compiler and it's working on my Win 7 platform. How do I tell my Perl runtime and IDE environments that I have a C compiler and a set of C libraries so I can use the include module? Whenever I run my code (I've just lifted the sample code straight from the Include C Cookbook to validate my environment before I try my own code) I receive the following error:

Error. You have specified 'C' as an Inline programming language.

I currently only know about the following languages:
    Foo, foo

If you have installed a support module for this language, try deleting
+ the
config-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.016003 file from the following Inlin
+e DIRECTORY, and run again:

    C:/Users/murrayn/Documents/codecvs/CodeCVS/Perl Code/TestCode/_Inl
+ine

(And if that works, please file a bug report.)

 at C:/Users/murrayn/Documents/codecvs/CodeCVS/Perl Code/TestCode/inli
+ne_c_test.pl line 0.
INIT failed--call queue aborted.

(and deleting the file does not fix the problem so I've not logged a bug report)

[syphilis]

Have you installed Inline::C ?
Until recently Inline::C shipped with Inline, but that's no longer the case - so you now need to explicitly install Inline::C.
You can check that Inline::C is installed (and what version it is) by running:

perl -e "require Inline::C;print $Inline::C::VERSION;"

Update: I've just noticed that you're working in a directory that contains whitespace ("Perl Code"):
C:/Users/murrayn/Documents/codecvs/CodeCVS/Perl Code/TestCode/_Inline
I don't know if that's related to your problem, but it's the sort of thing that might cause you some grief with Inline::C.
IMO, it's a good policy to avoid working with Inline::C in directories that contain whitespace if you can.

Cheers,
Rob

[murrayn]

Thanks Rob. Indeed there was a missing module and I was led astray by dated belief that the Inline package still included Inline::C - a belief reinforced by the absence of an Inline::C installable package in Activestate's PPM repository. There was also a requirement to install MinGW and Parse-RecDescent. I'm still investigating a build error but at least it's an error trying to build with C:

Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Cannot copy 'C:\Perl\html\Active.css' to '\Active.css': No such
+ file or directory
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at -e line 1.
Installing \Active.css
dmake.exe:  Error code 130, while making 'pure_site_install'

[syphilis]

ERROR: Cannot copy 'C:\Perl\html\Active.css' to '\Active.css': No such file or directory

That's a pretty odd sort of error to be getting - though it's similar to an error Windows users can experience with Inline-C-0.62 towards the the end of 'dmake test' when t/27inline_maker.t is run.

What version of Inline::C do you have ?
Can you provide a simple script that generates the above (or some similar) error.

Cheers,