'Makefile:980: *** Missing Separator. Stop.' when installing Win32::OLE

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Hi, When I try to install Win32::OLE module I get an error in the makefile as : "Makefile:980: *** Missing Separator. Stop." How can I now get through this . Thankyou !

20031128 Edit by Corion: Changed title from 'Win32::OLE'

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Re: 'Makefile:980: *** Missing Separator. Stop.' when installing Win32::OLE by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 28, 2003 at 09:03 UTC
Most likely you will need to use `nmake` as available from Microsoft. It sounds like you were starting `make` as available from Cygwin or some other weird make. `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: 'Makefile:980: *** Missing Separator. Stop.' when installing Win32::OLE by Roger (Parson) on Nov 28, 2003 at 10:34 UTC
I think his problem was to do with the formatting of the Makefile, where the make program is expecting 'TAB' characters where space characters where found. And yes I think switching to nmake is going to resolve this problem. Otherwise have to manually add those TAB characters. `Makefile -------- all: program program: program.c ^ need TAB here VC program.c ^ and here` [download]	[reply] [d/l]