I'm pretty new to Perl, but now I need to install and use a Perl software package (Daniel Klein's thermd). It requires a whole series of CPAN modules. I'm using Windows 7. I have so far done the following:

  1. Updated my ActiveState Perl installation to the latest version.
  2. In a command window opened using Run as Administrator, typed cpan App::cpanminus
  3. Got a long list of log info containing many error messages and warnings, the most interesting of which was probably several Access Denied messages. I tried capturing the log into a file here which shows the following several times: 
      nmake -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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    Strangely it does not include the Access Denied messages. You can see as much of the text as was saved in the command window here (sorry about the line wrapping - blame Windows, not me).

This all smells of some kind of Windows 7 permissions problem...

Can anyone guide me how to get through this stage so I can install the CPN modules, and then (hopefully) get thermd to run?

Many thanks - Rowan

In reply to Getting cpanm to work in Windows 7 by rowan

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