installing cpan module Audio-1.029

b4e has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hey.

i have recently asked which module is best for implementing a software synth using perl and was told to use
'Audio-029' (thanks to joost)
http://search.cpan.org/~ni-s/Audio-1.029/
or rather it's Audio::Play submodule

so i tried installing it on my system (win95) using Mcpan, dmake, nmake, etc. without being able to do so...
eg. after running perl makefile.pl using nmake returns the error msg : " fatal error U1081; 'cl' :program not found "

it says in the readme file that it works on win32, so this should be ok...

can sb tell me how to install this module properly ?
is there maybe a ppd distribution, so i can use ppm to install it ?
thanks

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Re: installing cpan module Audio-1.029 by Joost (Canon) on Jul 21, 2004 at 16:32 UTC
Hello b4e, I think this error indicates that you don't have the compiler that your perl was built with installed (as I recall cl is the MS VC++ compiler), or the cl binary isn't in your PATH; if you have the cl binary installed - add the directory that it's in to your %PATH% environment variable. By the way, I tried to install Audio::Play under cygwin yesterday but the `make` failed for some reason. I haven't had the time to look at the problem in any detail. I'm sorry I can't help you at this time. Otherwise, you could still try the Win32 sound modules. Good luck, Joost. Ps; if you get the compiler running and it still doesn't work, try mailing the maintainer of the Audio::Play module about your problem. I think he doesn't have a win32 machine himself, so he might appreciate a detailed error report. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: installing cpan module Audio-1.029 by b4e (Sexton) on Jul 21, 2004 at 16:46 UTC
thanks again. i'll keep trying. hopefully this cl binary Path include does the trick. appreciated, b.	[reply]
Re: installing cpan module Audio-1.029 by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2004 at 17:00 UTC
You need to install the C compiler from here and you will also need parts of the windows SDK from here /J\	[reply]
Re^2: installing cpan module Audio-1.029 by b4e (Sexton) on Jul 21, 2004 at 17:52 UTC
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 won't work on my machine since it requires Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 Windows XP. i'm looking for visual c++ 5.0, but don't wanna buy it... is there a demo version or sth, since i just need it for the module installation ? what excactly is windows SDK ? thanks, b. ps: i'll try vc 2003 anyway...	[reply]