Storable module

FireBird34 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Having some issues here with the Storable module. Whenever I try to install it, it always fails with this:

cl -c    -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_
+STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPER
+L_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O
+1    -DVERSION=\"2.13\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"2.13\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" 
+  Storable.c
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable pr
+ogram or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x1'
Stop.
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I've tried getting it from CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e 'install Storable'), ppm (couldn't find it there), and d/l'ing it manually and trying it that way... no go on any of them (same error).

For reference, I'm typing "perl Makefile.pl", and then "nmake" (or "nmake test") -- on either of those nmake's, that is where it fails.

Any suggestions? (I'm using WinXP on this system)

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Re: Storable module by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 09, 2004 at 07:04 UTC
As noted you need a C compiler (see the Modules section of Tutorials for details). However crazyinsomniac maintains another ppm repository that has lots of goodies in it. You can find it a http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/ He has Storable so just do: `# for 5.6 ppm install http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/Storable.ppd # for 5.8 ppm install http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8/Storable.p +pd` [download] Once you have it installed send him a thank you /msg ! cheers tachyon	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Storable module by FireBird34 (Pilgrim) on Sep 09, 2004 at 19:05 UTC
Thank you so much -- got it working =)	[reply]
Re: Storable module by BUU (Prior) on Sep 09, 2004 at 06:58 UTC
Storable has an XS component, which basically means C (or possibly other?) code that needs to be compiled to make the module work. CL is the name Microsoft C Compiler, which is what perl tries to use by default on win32 (or atleast activestate tries to use it, I suppose perl tries to use whatever it was compiled with). Storable comes by default with 5.8, so I'm suprised you don't have it. If you want to manually compile it you'll have to get your hands on the same compiler that your perl was compiled with (vc6 works fine for activestate for everything I've tried), or find another compiler and compile perl yourself.	[reply]
Re: Storable module by eserte (Deacon) on Sep 09, 2004 at 08:20 UTC
BTW, is there interest for a Storable module written in pure perl?	[reply]
Re^2: Storable module by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 09, 2004 at 09:05 UTC
That would be spelt FreezeThaw :) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Storable module by eserte (Deacon) on Sep 09, 2004 at 09:19 UTC
I had in my mind something which uses the same binary representation as Storable.	[reply]
Re^4: Storable module by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 09, 2004 at 13:54 UTC
Re^5: Storable module by eserte (Deacon) on Sep 09, 2004 at 14:40 UTC
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