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in thread Download Links for Dmake and MinGW

Thanks Rob for your detailed instructions. I was able to download the MinGW and dmake using ppm install without any issues. The reason I need to install them was because I need to install PAR::Packer which I had no trouble downloading. However, I had an dmake error when I manually installed it. Please see the installation code below. It may not be dmake issue, just dmake couldn't find system "windres" exe. 

Perl makefile.pl - this is OK
dmake
errors: windres is not recognized as an internal or external command, 
+operable program or batch file
error code 129 while making ppresource.coff

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I will try to work our admin to install "Windres" which is considered as a potential virus. I appreciate your great help! Ying

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Re^13: Download Links for Dmake and MinGW
by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 08, 2017 at 20:48 UTC

    "I will try to work our admin to install "Windres" which is considered as a potential virus."

    windres should be part of MinGW. Either that isn't installed properly or your PATH environment variable doesn't contain its location. You should seriously consider addressing the reasons your organization has for not simply using strawberry perl, along with your own cpan mirror.

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Re^13: Download Links for Dmake and MinGW
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 09, 2017 at 00:43 UTC
    windres is not recognized as an internal or external command

    If you are runningr anti-virus software that deemed windres.exe to possibly be a virus, then the file might not have been installed, or it might have been quarantined in some way that makes it inaccessible. (Perhaps its file extension was changed ?)
    You'll need to fix that.
    windres.exe should be in the same folder as gcc.exe.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      the Windres.exe issue was resolved by creating a Mingw folder in environment path. Thanks for your suggestions. However, still not able to install with errors like below: 

       dmake
may not locate par::heavy pm

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      not sure it means I need to download par::heavy as prerequisite? or something else? Thanks Ying

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        not sure it means I need to download par::heavy as prerequisite?

        PAR::Heavy is part of PAR itself.
        There is no module that I know of named "par::heavy" and I've no idea how the string "par::heavy pm" can possibly be appearing in the output for whatever command it was that you ran.
        I would need to see a copy'n'paste of the actual command you ran, plus a copy'n'paste of a few of the lines that were output before the appearance of that strange message.

        Are you able to install any other modules ?
        If so, then I would suggest creating a new thread about this problem installing PAR as the issues regarding the installation of dmake and MinGW have (presumably) been resolved.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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