Re^6: Tk Drag and Drop Between Applications

Regarding building my own binaries. I haven't added anything to my install. I haven't ever built a binary.

First I tried adding through Activestate's PPM. They don't have these two. I've tried CPAN's auto install: "perl -MCPAN -e shell", but that errors out because it can't find 'test'. And trying the basic makefile.pl file and make give me the errors listed above.

Note perl -V:make points to nmake, but nmake and dmake aren't in the path on my system, nor are they in my perl directory.

I haven't really RTFM'ed on building binaries. So, I'll start down that road.

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Re^7: Tk Drag and Drop Between Applications by Courage (Parson) on Dec 16, 2004 at 22:37 UTC
it is quite trivial to say, but in order to build C you need C compiler. ActiveState's binaries are built with MSVC. Most supported way for Win32 nowadays. Best regards, Courage, the Cowardly Dog	[reply]
Re^8: Tk Drag and Drop Between Applications by Ardemus (Beadle) on Dec 16, 2004 at 23:06 UTC
Courage, Thanks, I'll see if I can find MSVC (is the MS Visual C?). I downloaded and installed nmake according to this site: `http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html` But I get fatal errors with that too: C:\DOCUME~1\nburger\Desktop\PERL&T~1\Tcl-0.84>nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. cl -c -IC:/Tcl/include -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 +-DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEE D -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVC +RT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"0.84\" -DXS_VE RSION=\"0.84\" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" Tcl.c 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code + '0x1' Stop. [download] P.S. Although it's trivial to know that you need a compiler to compile something, I would say that it's not trivial to know what compilers will work and if I already had one installed ;) Make is trying, and perl -V:Make seems to indicate that nmake is being used (even though I couldn't find it). In any case, I really appreciate your help, because figuring this stuff out is quite a project for me.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^9: Tk Drag and Drop Between Applications by Courage (Parson) on Dec 17, 2004 at 04:27 UTC
`'cl' is not recognized as an internal or` means you still do not have compiler in your PATH. you probably installed IDE but you also need vcvars32.bat or better yet just tune environment vars as described in readme.win32 or Perl source distro addition it is supported 3 compilers to perl on win32 (not counting cygwin) and they are inter-compatible in that sence you can build extensiion with different compiler that was used to build core perl. at least they are trying to do so but you will face less difficulries if you'll use same compiler Best regards, Courage, the Cowardly Dog	[reply] [d/l]