I am having trouble installing Math::Pari module. These are set of steps I did

• I downloaded the module from CPAN Math-Pari-2.010500.tar.gz
• I unpacked the zipped tar file via PowerArchiver2001 Tool to d:\tmp\Math-Pari-2.010500 of the server I need to install the Math::Pari module.
• I 'cd' to d:\tmp\Math-Pari-2.010500 directory
• I ran 'perl Makefile.pl'
• Then I ran 'pmake test VERBOSE_TEST=1'
• It failed here looking for GP build directory.
• To resolve this issue I coppied gp.exe and cygwin1.dll to c:\WINNT\system32
• Then I ran 'pmake test VERBOSE_TEST=1' again
• This time it failed calling cl (Microsoft C++\C compiler), which I don’t have on the server.

I tried to substitute the cl with gcc which I obtained from GNU website. I copied gcc.exe to c:\WINNT\system32 and the executed 'perl Makefile.pl CC=gcc' Then 'pmake test VERBOSE_TEST=1', it failed again attempting to call the cl not gcc.

I also tried editing Makefile created after running 'perl Makefile.pl', and assgning gcc to the CC variable instead of cl. This did not work either since the syntax for the cl command in the Makefile is specific to the cl command eg. cl -l ...). The gcc - l would not work.

• Is putting cl.exe in c:\WINNT\system32 going to resolve the problem?
• Am I trying to install the module the right way?
• Why make or dmake or pmake is not available when I unzip and untar Math-Pari-2.010500.tar.gz?

edited: Fri Jul 18 15:40:48 2003 by jeffa - formatting to make more readable

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