I'm having trouble installing the Readonly module to StrawberryPerl apparently because it uses Module::Install::Tiny Module::Build::Tiny as its build / test / install infrastructure. I haven't been aware that I was running that build module before now, but obviously if nothing goes wrong the build system should be in the background just Doing The Right Thing™. So I won't have noticed.

I'm running a StrawberryPerl managed as an instance of Perl 5.40.2 by berrybrew. I feel like I have to show my fellow monks that I don't have a crazy setup, after some of my recent misadventures. Here's my %PATH% (speaking the CMD.exe dialect since we're talking about Windows):

/cygdrive/c/berrybrew/instance/5.40.2_64/c/bin
/cygdrive/c/berrybrew/instance/5.40.2_64/perl/bin
/cygdrive/c/berrybrew/instance/5.40.2_64/perl/site/bin
/cygdrive/c/Users/somia/Unpack-software/gitclones/berrybrew/bin
/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32
/cygdrive/c/windows
/cygdrive/c/Windows/7-zip
/cygdrive/c/windows/System32/Wbem
/cygdrive/c/py
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Docker/Docker/resources/bin
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/PowerShell/7
/cygdrive/c/perl/c/bin
/cygdrive/c/perl/perl/site/bin
/cygdrive/c/perl/perl/bin
/cygdrive/c/Users/somia/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps
/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin

I know, it looks like I am running cygwin, but believe me, I have the right Perl and tools. The above is prettified output of a (perl) script I wrote to manage my PATH.

perl -le "print $^V"
   v5.40.2

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What happens when I try to test and install the module is:

C:\Users\somia\build\strawberry-perl\Readonly-2.05-0>.\Build --verbose
+ test
Skip blib\lib\Readonly.pm (unchanged)

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Same thing when I type install instead of test.

I'm an EU::MM guy, I love make, and this just baffles me. I'm not trying to find someone to blame (no profit in that), but I would like to spend less time debugging the build of a simple module.

EDIT

Struck out imaginary module Module::Install::Tiny, in first paragraph above.

Jun 16, 2025 at 18:47 UTC

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In reply to On Windows, With StrawberryPerl, Module::Build::Tiny fails to install a module by Intrepid

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