Good monks, I am having a heck of a time installing libnet on my xp machine and was hoping for some guidance. I should preface this question by saying that the machine that I wish to install on does not have direct access to the outside world. So I am unable to hit any online repositories.

I figured the best option was simply to download the module from cpan and use nmake. I'm fairly new to compiling on Win32 and am thinking that my problem may be with nmake.

Anyway, this is what happens when I try to build libnet with nmake:


C:\pflat\perl\Modules\libnet-1.19>perl Makefile.PL
Checking for Socket...ok
Checking for IO::Socket...ok
Writing Makefile for Net

C:\pflat\perl\Modules\libnet-1.19>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.


C:\pflat\perl\Modules\libnet-1.19>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'bl ib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t\config.t t\datasend.t t\ftp.t t\hostname.t t\netrc.t t\ nntp.t t\require.t t\smtp.t
t\config......ok
t\datasend....ok
t\ftp.........skipped
all skipped: no reason given
t\hostname....ok
t\netrc.......ok
4/20 skipped: incompatible stat() handling for OS
t\nntp........skipped
all skipped: no reason given
t\require.....ok
t\smtp........skipped
all skipped: no reason given
All tests successful, 3 tests and 4 subtests skipped.
Files=8, Tests=92, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr + 0.00 csys = 0.00 CPU)

C:\pflat\perl\Modules\libnet-1.19>


-> In particular, I need net::smtp. Can anyone help me understand why it was skipped?

Thanks,

-p