I am trying to build Perl 5.8.8 from source using nmake and I am getting the following error: 

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\xcopy.EXE' : return co
+de '0x4'
Stop.

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My compiler is nmake from the MS Visual C++ Express Edition 2008

I have never built Perl from source before so I figured I would give it a shot.

nmake seems to work, nmake test also seems to work, nmake install fails with the above error

I can get it to skip the error by doing the install with the /I flag, but it looks like a partial install because it only installs wperl.exe and not perl.exe.

I can send my Makefile if you guys want to take a look...

Here are what some of the variables equal: 

INST_DRV    = c:
INST_TOP    = $(INST_DRV)\perl\5.8.8

CCTYPE        = MSVC90FREE

CCHOME        = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC

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Any ideas?

In reply to NMAKE : fatal error U1077 by yellowman

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