Addressing some of the comments:

- The long list of errors was caused by one of the first errors as syphilis said. Makefile.PL was outputting '#define XP_PC' to Javascript_Env.h, and the first error said that I needed to define "XP_BEOS, XP_OS2, XP_WIN, or XP_UNIX". So I changed 'XP_PC' in Makefile.pl to 'XP_WIN' and now I only get this.

C:\strawberry\cpan\build\JavaScript-1.12-mJTECJ>perl Makefile.pl
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
C:\DOCUME~1\Steve\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccciHYlf.o:test_js.c:(.text+0x2b): und
+efined reference to `JS_GetImplementationVersion'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Failed compiling test_js.c. ABORTING

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- I built SpiderMonkey 1.7 following the instructions here. I first downloaded the Mozilla Build environment and Visual C++ 9. Then I used the start-msvc9.bat in the mozilla-build folder (I think this is minGW) and followed the instructions on the web page to build the optimized/non-debug Spidermonkey. I think it worked as there is a shell (js.exe) in the ../jd/src folder that can read print("Hello world").

I stopped using minGW because when I tried to run Makefile.pl I was prompted that I needed perl version 5.8 and minGW only had 5.6.1 or something. So I'm now just using the windows command prompt.

- Finally, I tried the Javascript.pm from the repository and it seems to work great. I needed it for another module that was dependant on Javascript.pm. I guess that is problem solved, but I'd still be curious about getting it right the hard way.

Thanks for the help.

In reply to Re^2: Installing Javascript.pm on XP by dogman1
in thread Installing Javascript.pm on XP by dogman1

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