Can't install any modules

ihopnavajo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So all of my module install attempts are failing and I'm about to tear my hair out trying to figure out why. Below is the log. What the hell is going on? I uninstalled dwimperl, deleted all perl and cpan(m) related directories I could find hoping that whatever I screwed up along the way would be returned to default. I've reinstalled cpan. I'm thinking that at one point in time I manually moved my perl interpreter to my c:\perlscripts directory because, everytime I run cpan, it puts the blib directory (where it's apparently trying to install the modules to) in c:\perlscripts, even though everything else perl related is in c:\dwimperl. Please help. This was bad enough before but now that I removed everything, all the modules I had installed before are gone and none of my scripts will run. Oh, and please help in layman terms. When it comes to coding, all the resources I encounter online are helpful and make sense to me. However, when it comes to CONFIGURING perl, all the help pages seem to think I'm some expert computer science wizard who knows how to do everything, just not with perl. Thanks

c:\perlscripts>cpan App::cpanminus
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.202)
Database was generated on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:43:18 GMT
Running install for module 'App::cpanminus'
Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.63)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.042)
Checksum for C:\Dwimperl\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MI\MIYAGAWA\App-cpa
+nminus-1.7
012.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.80)
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4401)
CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.120351)
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.57)

  CPAN.pm: Building M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for App::cpanminus
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Cannot copy 'lib/App/cpanminus/fatscript.pm' to 'blib\lib\App\c
+panminus\f
atscript.pm': No such file or directory
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at -e line 1
dmake.EXE:  Error code 130, while making 'pm_to_blib'
  MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz
  C:\Dwimperl\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- NOT OK
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.77)
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

c:\perlscripts>cpanm String::Similarity
--> Working on String::Similarity
Fetching http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/ML/MLEHMANN/String-S
+imilarity-
1.04.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring String-Similarity-1.04 ... OK
Building and testing String-Similarity-1.04 ... FAIL
! Installing String::Similarity failed. See \.cpanm\build.log for deta
+ils.

c:\perlscripts>cpanm B::generate
! Finding B::generate on cpanmetadb failed.
! Finding B::generate on search.cpan.org failed.
! Finding B::generate () on mirror http://search.cpan.org/CPAN failed.
! Couldn't find module or a distribution B::generate ()

c:\perlscripts>cpan App::cpanminus
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.202)
Database was generated on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:43:18 GMT
Running install for module 'App::cpanminus'
Running make for M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.63)
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.042)
Checksum for C:\Dwimperl\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MI\MIYAGAWA\App-cpa
+nminus-1.7
012.tar.gz ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.80)
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)
CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4401)
CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.120351)
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.57)

  CPAN.pm: Building M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for App::cpanminus
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Cannot copy 'lib/App/cpanminus/fatscript.pm' to 'blib\lib\App\c
+panminus\f
atscript.pm': No such file or directory
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at -e line 1
dmake.EXE:  Error code 130, while making 'pm_to_blib'
  MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7012.tar.gz
  C:\Dwimperl\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- NOT OK
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.77)
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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Re: Can't install any modules by Anonymous Monk on Oct 06, 2014 at 23:28 UTC
Uninstall dwimperl by any means you know (add remove programs, remove anything dwimperl from any registry entries, remove the directory dwimperl) Go to http://strawberryperl.com/ and install something recent. If you think you might move the directory where perl is installed get the "portable" version Install strawberryperl and then use cpan as usual, to install cpanm....	[reply]
Re^2: Can't install any modules (autoruns SH_PATH "cmd /d /x /c") by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2014 at 02:56 UTC
Ok, the problem was autoruns `reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor" /s` How to change the default startup directory for Command Prompt? Hidden gotcha: The command processor's AutoRun setting - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs This could (or not) be considered a win32 perl bug as SH_PATH/Config#sh is lacking a /D option `$ perl -V:sh sh='cmd /x /c';` [download] `$ cmd /? ... /D Disable execution of AutoRun commands from registry (see below +) ... If /D was NOT specified on the command line, then when CMD.EXE starts, + it looks for the following REG_SZ/REG_EXPAND_SZ registry variables, and i +f either or both are present, they are executed first. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Can't install any modules by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2014 at 00:01 UTC
Still not working. Is there some root directory I could go to change where it wants to set up this 'blib' directory?	[reply]
Re^3: Can't install any modules by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2014 at 00:08 UTC
Still not working. That is not exactly possible :) You need to provide more details.	[reply]
Re^4: Can't install any modules by ihopnavajo (Initiate) on Oct 07, 2014 at 01:01 UTC
Re^4: Can't install any modules by ihopnavajo (Initiate) on Oct 07, 2014 at 00:22 UTC
Re^5: Can't install any modules by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2014 at 00:34 UTC
Re^5: Can't install any modules by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2014 at 00:26 UTC


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