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

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.

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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