Hello!

I want to install some perl modules on my WinXP machine with ActivePerl already installed. Since I'm inside a corporate network the ppm utility does not work (I guess it's due to firewalls etc) so I have to do it the manual way.

The problem is that when I execute the first command (perl Makefile.pl) I first got an error message telling me that I don't have a compiler installed. This issue was however solved by installing cygwin and the gcc compiler. Now, the error message states that I don't have nmake or dmake in my path. So I download nmake and put it in the C:\Perl\bin which is in my path. Still, I get the same error when trying the execute the makefile. Any ideas what to do? I don't know how to get a hold of dmake and it shouldn't be neccesary since I already have nmake.

Thank you in advance!

Best regards, Samuel

In reply to Problems when installing Perl modules WinXP by samuelalfred

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