Hmmm, I'm not doing that. I am getting these errors from running cpan <module name>. I only used dmake in my original post to succicntly show the problem. I'll do a screen scrape tomorrow of the cpan command output.

Sorry, but this is the only way to get this error, esp with strawberry perl

cpan <module name does about a dozen things, including run perl Makefile.PL ... with arguments from your cpan configuration

I've seen this crop up a dozen times, and always because Makefile built for nmake was being called with dmake

You don't actually need to have an nmake.exe anywhere on your system

Looking for DFSEP ... in the source code is just digging too deep, too soon

Everything in your posts confirms that perl Makefile.PL make=nmake is the reason, whether its because of cpan configuration or Config_heavy.pl (like say, a different perl in your path gets called for some reason)

In reply to Re^3: Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by Anonymous Monk
in thread Strawberry Perl 5.12.3, CPAN, make file problems (dmake.exe), DFSEP and backslash "\" by jffry

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