Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry asks the right question: Which dmake are you running? Check with this one-liner:

C:\Users\alex>perl -E "say for grep -x,map qq[$_\\dmake.exe],split/;/,
+$ENV{PATH}"
C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe

C:\Users\alex>
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The first line contains the dmake that will run. If you want to run dmake from your flash stick (G:), then you should not see dmake in C:\strawberry as first entry. From the dmake error message, it looks like you invoked the dmake in C:\strawberry.

To use portable strawberry, you have to modify the environment. This is done by running portableshell.bat. See also the file README.txt in the top-level directory of the Strawberry-portable zip file. Relevant part:

How to use Strawberry Perl Portable?

1. Extract strawberry portable ZIP into e.g. c:\myperl\
   Note: choose a directory name without spaces and non us-ascii characters
2. Launch c:\myperl\portableshell.bat - it should open a command prompt window
3. In the command prompt window you can:
   • run any perl script by launching

     c:\> perl c:\path\to\script.pl
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   • install additional perl modules (libraries) from http://www.cpan.org/ by

     c:\> cpan Module::Name
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   • run other tools included in strawberry like: perldoc, gcc, gmake ...
4. If you want to use Strawberry Perl Portable not only from portableshell.bat, add c:\myperl\perl\site\bin, c:\myperl\perl\bin, and c:\myperl\c\bin to PATH variable

Alexander