Re^4: Defining the C environment for "inline::c"

[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

[murrayn]

I've been a good novice and done as the wise ones said (or sort of anyway). I went back and ran "cpan install Inline::C" and got a nice clean result. C.pm and C.pod are also in my Inline directory now and my "Hello world" application runs from the command line but not from my Eclipse environment where it's stored in the "...\Perl<space>Code\..." directory path. If I try to run a Perl script with Inline C code from inside that directory path the build function tries to copy resources into the C: root directory and fails as described above. If I move my script into something with properly named directories everything seems to be happy. Clearly, Bill Gates is not the Messiah!, he's a very naughty boy for allowing silly file and directory names! Thanks for all the help. Time for an attempt at a real project!

[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 :)