I'm trying to use nmake to complete the perlxstut tutorial. The tutorial tells you to use a batch program named h2xs.bat to create a directory named mytest and populate it with a group of files. It then tells you to run Makefile.pl which prepares a file for use by nmake.exe.

When I run nmake on the folder I get the following error:

  • "C:\Perl\lib\CORE|perl.h(441): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/types.h : No such file or directory
  • NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x2' Stop"

    • On my machine nmake.exe calls cl.exe with the following parameters:


  • "cl -c -nologo -01 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -01 -MD -Zi _DNDEBUG -DVERSION=\"0.01\" -DNS_VERSION=\"0.01\" -IC:\Perl\lib\CORE mytest.c"

    • I was originally missing the following files and programs:


  • msvc and importantly cl.exe (this was installed in C:\program files\microsoft platform sdk\bin\win64)
  • nmake.exe (this was installed in c:\perl\bin)
  • PerlCRT.dll (installed in system32 folder)
  • (and) PerlCRT.lib (copied to Perl's Core directory)

    • Chances are my system will need to be configured further, but I'm hoping there's not much left.
    I installed perl using 'ActivePerl-5.6.1.638-MSWin32 Windows Installer Package', which I downloaded a while ago from CPAN.
    I'm stuck, and the features offered by .xs files seem promising. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

    In reply to perlxstut (compiler problems) by llee

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