Re^2: how to install perlmodules in windowsXP

[veeruch]

Hi Rob
i copied the dmake to c:\perl\bin and installed mingw
but how to inter link these two?.
While iam using dmake it is showing
dmake: Error: -- `C:\Perl\libConfig.pm' not found, and can't be made

[syphilis]

You just need to add the mingw\bin folder to the path environment variable.

Does 'C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm' exist ? If it's not there, then you're perl is incomplete. You won't be able to build anything if Config.pm can't be found. ActiveState builds of perl always come with Config.pm ... so you should have it - if you are, in fact, running ActiveState perl.

Cheers,
Rob

[veeruch]

hi Rob,
I have added the path mingw\bin.
C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm is also there.
but the same error showing
dmake: Error: -- `C:\Perl\libConfig.pm' not found, and can't be made

insted of C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm

[syphilis]

My apologies - I did not read your post carefully enough and failed to notice the missing '\'. I've seen this problem before ... damn, I can't recall where it comes from, and I don't have time to investigate right now .... is it a bug in Extutils::MakeMaker ? or a bug in the ActivePerl configuration ? I think ExtUtils::MakeMaker might be the culprit. What is revealed when you run:

perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e "print $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION"

What's the build number of your Active Perl ? ('perl -v' will tell you, if you're unsure.)

In the Makefile that was generated when you ran 'perl Makefile.PL', check that you have something like:

# --- MakeMaker constants section:
AR_STATIC_ARGS = cr
DIRFILESEP = \\
DFSEP = $(DIRFILESEP)

What do you have for "DIRFILESEP" ? Iirc, that's where the problem lies. I'll try to dig up more tomorrow, when I have time. In the meantime, hopefully someone else can fill in the gaps :-)

Cheers,
Rob