I've created a password encrypting application. Currently it uses Crypt::CBC with Crypt::DES_EDE3 as the cipher. Its all working fine. BUT ... initially I wanted to use Crypt::Blowfish because from what I understand this is a better encryption algorithm. Problem is ... I'm on a win32 system and you can't install Blowfish with ppm3 (its not available on ppm3). I've attempted to download and install Blowish module from CPAN using nmake. I get the below error

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

cp Blowfish.pm blib\lib\Crypt\Blowfish.pm
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap C:\
+Perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap  Blowfish.xs > Blowfish.xs
+c && C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Com
mand -e mv Blowfish.xsc Blowfish.c
        cl -c    -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSO
+LE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
+XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPER
L_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1    -DVERSION=\"2.09\"  -DXS_VERS
+ION=\"2.09\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   Blowfish.c
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '
+0x1'
Stop.

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I've read the README notes. Not knowing a lot about this installing method I'm a little stuck. Call me retarted but I'm calling on people who know a little more about this than me. Thanks. :-)

Dean
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In reply to Installing Crypt::Blowfish by crabbdean

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