Re^2: Defining the C environment for "inline::c"

[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,

[murrayn]

This appears to be an issue with the make process trying to copy things to the root directory of the c: drive in violation of security permissions. I forced the creation of "c:\Active.css" and tried again then failed on the next file dmake wanted to copy - this is Windows saying "I can't create the file so I'll tell the user it doesn't exist." Technically it's true but it's not the root cause. I suspect there's an installation error with Inline::C since I didn't use Activestate PPM. I just downloaded the Inline-C tar.gz file from CPAN and copied the "C" folder from there under my perl\site\lib\Inline folder. I'm generating C code in the temporary _Inline folders but something is not correct in some destination path somewhere. Still looking (and listening for someone to tell me where I've been silly!).

[syphilis]

I just downloaded the Inline-C tar.gz

As Anonymous Monk said, that's not the correct way.
However, because Inline::C is, itself, a pure perl module that approach will work - but you didn't do it correctly. As well as copying the "C" folder to perl/site/lib/Inline, you should also copy C.pm and C.pod to the same location.

Most people would install Inline::C by running something like cpan -i Inline::C
Alternatively, having already downloaded and extracted Inline-C-0.62.tar.gz you could 'cd' to the extracted Inline-C-0.62 folder and run 'perl Makefile.PL', 'dmake test', then 'dmake install'.
If you go down either of those 2 paths, expect to see lots of warnings (with I::C-0.62) during the 'dmake test' phase - and expect t/26fork.t and t/27inline_maker.t to fail. (But just do the 'dmake install' anyway.)
Nearly forgot - for running dmake test you'll need Test::Warn (and its preprequisites) and File::Copy::Recursive installed.

Cheers,
Rob

[Anonymous Monk]

I just downloaded the Inline-C tar.gz file from CPAN and copied the "C" folder from there under my perl\site\lib\Inline folder.

Now go ahead and delete that, and install Inline::C by running Makefile.PL ... like you're supposed to :)

[Anonymous Monk]

Active.css ... That's a pretty odd sort of error to be getting ...

Probably ActivePerl::DocTools stuff :)