in reply to cannot gmake Math-Random Random.xs.dll

Hello BobbyT420 and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of Perl!

well.. you provided many informations, this is a good thing: I cannot see directly how to resolve your issue.

What can I add to your analisys is that version matrix seems to confirm that your module can be installed on MSwin32.

But from realeas notes of strawberry perl 5.26.0 I see it comes along with Math::Random::ISAAC maybe you can workaround your problem using this other one?

At least until other monks find The Solution... :=)

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Re^2: cannot gmake Math-Random Random.xs.dll
by BobbyT420 (Novice) on Sep 16, 2017 at 19:43 UTC

    Thanks for the reply. You guys seem pretty serious in here so I thought I would go the extra distance to provide as much info as possible in the hope of finding a solution.

    I'm trying to install Math-Random as it's required by the program I'm trying to use; circos to be precise. I'm all for having a go at using Math-Random-ISAAC but I have no idea where I would change this. Or what else would need to be changed (what with me not having written the program that is calling for it).

    Any suggestions where to start?

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        Another Monk! Sweet.

        The first link is the one I reference in the first post. The solutions there do no apply for whatever reason. The discussed outputs in this post also suggest I am running the correct version of mingW.

        The second link has nothing there for my n00bin' eye balls. I think (based on the first link) that there is no issue with 32bit v 64bit dlls.

        The third link; installed VS community, and added a value to PATH. Rebooted and tried again, no change :(

        Here's my PATH in case that gives anyone an idea. Sorry for not including it originally:

        D:\Program Files\Python\Python27\;D:\Program Files\Python\Python27\Scr
+ipts;c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\mingw_32\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\
+javapath;c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32\wbem;c:\w
+indows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA
+ Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program
+ Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;D:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:
+\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;D:\Strawberry\c\bin;D:\Strawberry\p
+erl\site\bin;D:\Strawberry\perl\bin;D:\Strawberry\c\x86_64-w64-mingw3
+2;D:\VisualStudio\Common7\IDE\

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        EDIT: forgot to mention that I tried installing another module dependent on XS framework(?); namely Time::Piece. This failes in the same manner as installing Math::Random. The issue (possibly) is linked to the compiler (mingW in this case). I added the mingw PATh variable (2nd from the end) myself as there wasn't one to start off with. It made no difference to the error output anyways.

        EDIT...again: I just noticed that R has a 32-bit version of mingW installed as part of Rtools. Could this be causing a conflict? If so how should it be resolved? It took quite a bit of effort getting Rtools installed. Bloody windows :/

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