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

I'm trying to get Net::SSLeay installed with Strawberry Perl and running into some issues. First, I have OpenSSL 0.9.8g installed in C:\openssl. I try and run install Net::SSLeay and it grabs all the necessary packages, but bombs during compilation. Here is the program output: 
Cannot determine perl version info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
Cannot determine license info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
*** Found OpenSSL-0.9.8g installed in C:\OpenSSL

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Then it spews a bunch of errors from SSLeay.c and I get the following: 
dmake.EXE Error code 129, while making SSLeay.o

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Has anyone tried Net::SSLeay with Strawberry perl and found it to work? Milling around other help forums, I see a lot of comments, but no solutions.

Any help would be appreciated. Can anyone point me to a page that has a step by step process outlined? Or better, explain the process here?

Thanks.

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Re: Net::SSLeay and Strawberry Perl
by bingos (Vicar) on Jan 25, 2008 at 10:36 UTC

    I presume you are using the Shining Light OpenSSL install for Windows?

    I have just tried Strawberry with version 0.9.8a and it compiled, built, tested and installed fine.

    One thing you have to do though is copy the files from C:\OpenSSL\lib\MinGW to C:\OpenSSL\lib

    Hope that helps.

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      Could you please add a page on it to http://win32.perl.org if there isn't one already? That seems like a common question.

      -xdg

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      I tried to do what you said, but the install still fails.

      C:OpenSSL\lib\ now contains libeay32.a, libeay32.def, ssleay32.a, and ssleay32.def. I try to run the install command and get the following: 

      Cannot determine perl version info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
Cannot determine license info from lib/Net/SSLeay.pm
*** Found OpenSSL-0.9.8g installed in C:\OpenSSL
*** Be sure to use the same compiler and options to compile your OpenS
+SL, perl,
    and Net::SSLeay. Mixing and matching compilers is not supported.
Do you want to run external tests?
These tests *will* *fail* if you do not have network connectivity. [y]
+ y
*** Module::AutoInstall version 1.03
*** Checking for Perl dependencies...
[Core Features]
- Sub::Uplevel    ...loaded. (0.18)
- Test::Exception ...loaded. (0.26)
- Array::Compare  ...loaded. (1.14)
- Tree::DAG_Node  ...loaded. (1.06)
- Test::Warn      ...loaded. (0.10)
- MIME::Base64    ...loaded. (3.07_01)
*** Module::AutoInstall configuration finished.
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Net::SSLeay
cp lib/Net/SSLeay.pm blib\lib\Net\SSLeay.pm
AutoSplitting blib\lib\Net\SSLeay.pm (blib\lib\auto\Net\SSLeay)
blib\lib\Net\SSLeay.pm: some names are not unique when truncated to 8 
+characters

...

C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" C:\strawberry\perl\lib\ExtUtil
+s\xsubpp
-typemap C:\strawberry\perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap  SSL
+eay.xs > S
SLeay.xsc && C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::Comma
+nd -e mv S
SLeay.xsc SSLeay.c
gcc -c  -IC:\strawberry\c\include       -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRY
+PT -DPERL_
IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCR
+T_READFIX
-s -O2    -DVERSION=\"1.32\"    -DXS_VERSION=\"1.32\"  "-IC:\strawberr
+y\perl\lib
\CORE"   SSLeay.c

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      It then spews a bunch of errors again, and exits with the following: 
      dmake.EXE:  Error code 129, while making 'SSLeay.o'
  FLORA/Net-SSLeay-1.32.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- NOT OK

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      Is there some environment variable I need to modify or some other file I need to copy?

      I appreciate the help.

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        I notice your gcc -c  -IC:\... line doesn't have the -IC:\OpenSSL\include needed to find OpenSSL's header files. Could that be the problem? Try running: 

          C:\> SET INCLUDE_PATH=C:\OpenSSL\Include
  C:\> cpan install Net::SSLeay

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        and see if that changes the error message.
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