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Downloaded Strawberry Perl latest version (5.12.3.0). installed Regexp and now Win32-PowerPoint. alas, I get an installation error (described below). is this one incompatible with 5.12.3 ? does anyone know?



cpan> install Win32::PowerPoint
Running install for module 'Win32::PowerPoint'
Running make for I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/I/IS/ISHIGAKI/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\I\IS\ISHIGAKI\Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz

... all ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MS/MSCHWERN/Exporter-Lite-0.02.tar.gz

... all ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Test-UseAllModules-0.13.tar.gz

... all ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build K/KA/KASEI/Class-Accessor-0.34.tar.gz

... all ok

  CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz

cp lib/Win32/PowerPoint/Constants.pm blib\lib\Win32\PowerPoint\Constants.pm
cp lib/Win32/PowerPoint/Utils.pm blib\lib\Win32\PowerPoint\Utils.pm
cp lib/Win32/PowerPoint.pm blib\lib\Win32\PowerPoint.pm
  ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- OK
Running make test
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0,'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/00_load.t ......... ok
t/01_basic.t ........ 1/12 # Hello, Microsoft PowerPoint

t/01_basic.t ........ 2/12 #   Failed test at t/01_basic.t line 32.
t/01_basic.t ........ 7/12
#   Failed test at t/01_basic.t line 98.
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 12.
t/01_basic.t ........ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/12 subtests
t/99_pod.t .......... skipped: Test::Pod 1.18 required
t/99_podcoverage.t .. skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage 1.04 required

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/01_basic.t      (Wstat: 512 Tests: 12 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  2, 12
  Non-zero exit status: 2
Files=4, Tests=15,  3 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr +  0.05 sys =  0.08 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/4 test programs. 2/15 subtests failed.
dmake.EXE:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'
  ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz        : make_test NO


cpan> reports ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
Distribution: I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Win32-PowerPoint-0.09.tar.gz
Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Win32-PowerPoint.yaml'...Could not dow
nload 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Win32-PowerPoint.yaml': 500


cpan>

In reply to Win32-PowerPoint-0.09 does not install under Strawberry 5.12.3 by iaw4

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