PERL MONKS DISCUSSION Hi, I'm new at installing Perl programming libraries, a little
familiar with Linux and Unix, and a little more familiar with setting up Windows XP for programming. I want to use
CPAN’s complex math libraries (constants, complex numbers,vectors, and matricies) in Math::GSL for a Perl
program that I've written. Can you help me figure out I'm missing to complete the installation of this library?

I've downloaded and extracted pre-compiled versions of pkg- config_0.23-3_win32.zip, and I set the system environment variable
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to its root directory on the C: drive. I've
downloaded and extracted a pre-compiled version of gsl-1.8-win.zip as
C code in the pkg-config folder, and I renamed the file gsl.pc.in as
gsl.pc and placed it in the pkg-config root directory. I assigned the
user environment variable GSL_DIR to the directory where gsl.pc is located, and I modified gsl.pc to direct to the proper folders. I also downloaded
and extracted pre-compiled mingw32 files and installed them in the
same pkg-config directory.

From CPAN, using Strawberry Perl, I've already downloaded ExtUtils::PkgConfig, Module::Build, and Math::GSL. It seems to be
installing Math-GSL v0.2. Here's what I get when I try to build Math::GSL. Building Math-GSL 
 In file included from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/sys/socket.h:32, 
                 from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:388, 
                 from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32thread.h:4, 
                 from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/perl.h:2817, 
                 from xs\BLAS_wrap.c:731: 
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:393:26: warning: "/*" within comment 
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:394:33: warning: "/*" within comment 
In file included from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32thread.h:4, 
                 from C:/Perl/lib/CORE/perl.h:2817, 
                 from xs\BLAS_wrap.c:731: 
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:393:26: warning: "/*" within comment 
C:/Perl/lib/CORE/win32.h:394:33: warning: "/*" within comment 
xs\BLAS_wrap.c:1560:29: gsl/gsl_nan.h: No such file or directory 
xs\BLAS_wrap.c:1561:30: gsl/gsl_math.h: No such file or directory 
xs\BLAS_wrap.c:1562:31: gsl/gsl_monte.h: No such file or directory

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GSL_DIR points to %PATH%\PkgConfig\ . Path points to %SHORTPATH%\PKGCON~1\bin . The files needed (gsl_nan.h, gsl_math.h, and gsl_monte.h) are in the GSL_DIR\gsl\ , and the GSL_DIR
contains gsl.pc.

What am I missing?

In reply to Math::GSL installation on Windows XP by Barnabas

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