You might have better luck with ActiveState's PPM command.

Type ppm at any command prompt.

Once you have a  PPM> prompt type help

If you want to compile modules that are not available with ppm, you might try setting the environment variables that NMAKE and VC++ require.

Do a search for  *var*.bat in your Visual C directory. You'll probably come up with something like VCVARS32.BAT. Run that batch file

Hope this helps.

Let us know how it turns out

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