I am running Win7 Pro (64 bit) on a Gateway SX-2841.
I have installed Active State Perl v5.12.4 and have been writing Perl for a few years.
Today, I tried to install the Win32::Console module, with no luck.
The first attempt was via cpanminus. The Command window was run in Admin mode. It went like this:
C:\Windows\system32>cpan App::cpanminus
It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed.
+ Trying to install dmake and the MinGW gcc compiler using the Perl
Package Manager. This may take a a few minutes...
ppm.bat install failed: Can't find any package that provides MinGW
It looks like the installation of dmake and MinGW has failed.
You will not be able to run Makefile commands or compile
C extension code.
Please check your internet connection and your proxy settings!
CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v3.00)
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.22)
Going to read 'C:\Perl64\cpan\Metadata'
Database was generated on Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:28:07 GMT
Running install for module 'App::cpanminus'
Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.5005.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.62)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.033)
Checksum for C:\Perl64\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MI\MIYAGAWA\App-cpanm
+inus-1.5005.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.76)
App-cpanminus-1.5005/
App-cpanminus-1.5005/bin/
App-cpanminus-1.5005/Changes
App-cpanminus-1.5005/lib/
App-cpanminus-1.5005/Makefile.PL
App-cpanminus-1.5005/MANIFEST
App-cpanminus-1.5005/META.json
App-cpanminus-1.5005/META.yml
App-cpanminus-1.5005/README
App-cpanminus-1.5005/t/
App-cpanminus-1.5005/t/happy_cpantesters.t
App-cpanminus-1.5005/lib/App/
App-cpanminus-1.5005/lib/App/cpanminus.pm
App-cpanminus-1.5005/bin/cpanm
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4401)
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.50)
CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.5005.tar.gz
It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed.
Trying to install dmake and the MinGW gcc compiler using the Perl
Package Manager. This may take a a few minutes...
ppm.bat install failed: Can't find any package that provides MinGW
It looks like the installation of dmake and MinGW has failed.
You will not be able to run Makefile commands or compile
C extension code.
Please check your internet connection and your proxy settings!
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for App::cpanminus
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.5005.tar.gz
nmake -- NOT OK
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.35)
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
C:\Windows\system32>
Next, I tried ppm. The "Perl on Windows" paragraph of "How to Install CPAN modules" appears to suggest that cpanminus should be used with Strawberry and PPM with ActiveState. Did I misread that? Anyway, this run sort of looked like it worked. But no joy.
C:\Windows\system32>ppm install Win32::Console
No missing packages to install
C:\Windows\system32>
Here is a simple Perl script to see what happened:
C:\Windows\system32>cd \c\perl\console
C:\c\Perl\console>type console.pl
# Perl script to test keyboard functions
use Win32::Console
$cons = new Win32::Console STD_INPUT_HANDLE;
C:\c\Perl\console>console
"Win32::Console=HASH(0x10e7c0)" is not exported by the
Win32::Console module. Can't continue after import errors
at C:\c\Perl\console\console.pl line 6
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
C:\c\Perl\console\console.pl line 6.
C:\c\Perl\console>
I am now wondering if the "Win32" module is exactly that -- not useable on a 64-bit machine. If that's the problem, is there a 64-bit module that returns scan codes (or raw keyboard data in some other way)?
Perhaps I should add that I've been using Win32::Console on a Win98 system for several years. I hoped it would be a simple matter to get it for Win7.
