I'd like to try other modules, how can I find out which ones require the 'C' compiler?

Any module whose source contains .xs files will require the C compiler. However, the particular failure here seems to be related to the building of an executable (par.exe) using g++.exe ... and I don't know of any modules OTTOMH that will do the same.

they suggested I had a corrupt installation of MingW

That's what it looks to me, too ... but we haven't yet managed to uncorrupt it.

If you can be bothered, provide me with a copy'n'paste of the outputs of the following:
1) gcc -v
2) g++ -v
3) dmake -V
and I'll make sure that I get the exact same packages. Maybe then I'll be able to reproduce the failure ... and if I can do that, then we should be able to come up with a fix.

However, I'm about to go to bed now, and I won't be back around on perlmonks for approximately another 20 hours ... so there's no real hurry to provide those details :-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^10: trying to build PAR-Packer-1.002 by syphilis
in thread trying to build PAR-Packer-1.002 by rich_d_thomas

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