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WARNING: The sqrt and ** (pow) overloading is buggy on ActivePerl. (See the README file.)
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Ooops ... you shouldn't be getting that warning. (Now fixed on github.)

I used the wizard to install perl-5.28.1 from the AS msi. I'm still having trouble getting anywhere - maybe there's something in the registry, from a previous installation that's causing problems.
I've pretty much lost interest in persevering with it.

Having added my gcc-4.7.0 compiler and dmake to my path, here's what I get when I try a manual build of Math::LongDouble:

C:\sisyphusion\Math-LongDouble-0.22>perl Makefile.PL

  WARNING: The sqrt and ** (pow) overloading is buggy
           on ActivePerl. (See the README file.)

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
... Detected uninstalled Perl.  Trying to continue.
Have \_64\active~1.28\lib
Want \temp\activestate--------please-run-the-install-script--------\li
+b
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lm
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lmoldname
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lkernel32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -luser32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lgdi32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lwinspool
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lcomdlg32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -ladvapi32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lshell32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lole32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -loleaut32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lnetapi32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -luuid
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lws2_32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lmpr
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lwinmm
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lversion
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lodbc32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lodbccp32
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -lcomctl32
Failed to opendir 'C:\TEMP\ActiveState--------please-run-the-install-s
+cript--------\lib\CORE' to find header files:
 No such file or directory at C:/_64/ActiveState-5.28/site/lib/ExtUtil
+s/MM_Any.pm line 3049.
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I don't understand any of that.
I don't know what or where the "uninstalled Perl" is.
The directory \_64\active~1.28\lib does not exist AFAICT.
I don't understand the direction to "please-run-the-install-script".

Also, in their perl/site/lib/ActivePerl/Config.pm, there's a sub _warn that begins:

sub _warn {
    my($msg) = @_;
    unless (-t STDOUT) {
    print "\n$msg\n";
    return;
    }
    require Win32::Console;
    .....
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If AS is going to conditionally call Win32::Console, it's probably a good idea that they include Win32::Console in their distribution. (You can pass that suggestion on to them if you like.)
My first attempts at using the cpan utility resulted simply in the announcement that Win32::Console could not be found, and should be installed.
I speculate that _warn() had been called because dmake could not be found in my path ... but that useful piece of information never made it to the screen because -t STDOUT was "True" && Win32::Console was nowhere to be found.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^6: Perl5.26 installing Tk module manually by syphilis
in thread Perl5.26 installing Tk module manually by vinoth.ree

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