I'm a rank beginner trying to load my first module and running into problems. I've read the tutorials, but I'm having no luck. I'm not a developer by any stretch but I've written some simple scripts that I'm pleased with, but now I want to take the next step and start using the libraries. Any help to get me get started will be appreciated.

I'm running Windows XP. I've downloaded strawberryperl 5.10.0 and nmake. When I enter the command "perl -V:make" it says I should be using dmake, but when I use that command it is not found.

Ultimately I'd like to get Net::SSH::Perl running - I've tried the CPAN installer, but that doesn't work for me yet - lots of errors I don't understand yet. I thought I'd try to get some of the modules loaded manually - once I get that working, I should be better prepared for the CPAN installer. So anyway, I downloaded one of the dependent modules I want (in this case Crypt::DH), unpack it and ran: perl makefile.pl (which ran okay), next I run nmake.exe and I get the error: 

Missing right curly bracket at -e line 1, at end of line
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ 0xff
Stop.

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I'm not sure what this error means. I haven't got to any of my code yet, so I don't think I should be going in and adding curly brackets to anything. Can any of y'all please let me know where I'm going astray?

In reply to Errors manually loading modules by bruceclegg

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