The first thing to check is that your compiler is in your path. Not that that is any guarentee that the EU:MM tools will "find" it.

I recently encountered a problem with building a module (threads) where the EU::MM generated makefile refused to do anything, because it decided I didn't have a compiler.

Turned out that it was trying to use -x 'cl' to determine if the compiler existed and was executable, which is never going to work as the file is cl.exe. I bypassed the problem by just commenting out the dumb test and it went ahead successfully.

You could try doing: 

perl -d:Trace c:\yourPerl\bin\cpan.bat

[download]

to try and track down where (and what it is doing), to decide you don't have a compiler. But to do that you'd need to have Devel::Trace installed, which you probably don't. Catch22.

However, Devel::Trace is a very simple module and can be installed manually by downloading this file into c:\yourPerl\lib\Devel\ directory.

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In reply to Re^5: mysql installation w/cpan by BrowserUk
in thread mysql installation w/cpan by fionbarr

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