goober99 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to make Pugs on Windows XP. I downloaded Pugs 6.0.11 from CPAN today. I installed the Win32 binary of GHC 6.4. I am running XP Pro SP2.

I successfully ran perl Makefile.PL. When I ran nmake, I got the following error:
cp lib/Perl6/Pugs.pm blib\lib\Perl6\Pugs.pm
Makefile(400) : fatal error U1087: cannot have : and :: dependents for
+ same target
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x2'
Stop.

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Has anyone been able to make Pugs on Windows XP? What do I need to do differently to successfully make Pugs?

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Re: Error When Making Pugs on Windows XP
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Mar 14, 2005 at 07:47 UTC
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      I upgraded ExitUtils::MakeMaker from 6.17 to 6.25. Then I tried making it again. I got a different error that time, but it still did not make. The file was stored in C:\My Documents (a path with spaces in it). I moved it to C:\Pugs (a path without spaces in it) and tried making it one more time. It worked!

      Note to everyone making Pugs on Windows: Place the source files in a path without spaces in it. (By the way, I use ActiveState 5.8.6) I'm looking forward to playing around with Pugs.
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        Many of the "tried and tested" tools of Perl have problems with spaces in directory names, most notably CPAN.pm, and Inline::C (not in the category "tried and tested"). I find this is especialy weird, because under Unix file names with whitespace are much longer allowed than in the Win32 world, and given the Unix-centricity of the developers, this should have been an issue a long time ago. It seems that nobody ever went and fixed the issues. I did once try to hunt down all the cases where CPAN.pm fails to do the Right Thing when (not) quoting filenames, but gave up.

        So the moral of this is - don't install Perl below a directory with spaces in its name.

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Re: Error When Making Pugs on Windows XP
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Mar 14, 2005 at 08:41 UTC

    I made Pugs 6.0.11 on Windows XP Pro SP2 today. No problems, all tests passed. I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.8.6. I'm using an earlier version of GHC (6.2.2) -- though your problem looks unrelated to that.

    Update: I built it with the normal: perl Makefile.PL, nmake, nmake test, nmake install.

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Re: Error When Making Pugs on Windows XP
by pernod (Chaplain) on Mar 14, 2005 at 08:48 UTC

    Not exactly a solution perhaps, but I'm able to build Pugs from the darcs repository on Windows XP. Running dmake on the generated Makefile gives:

    Skip blib\lib\Perl6\sync.pl (unchanged)
cp lib/Perl6/Pugs.pm blib\lib\Perl6\Pugs.pm
Skip C:\dev\fun\pugs\blib6\lib\Kwid.pm (unchanged)
cp lib/perlkwid.kwid C:\dev\fun\pugs\blib6\lib\perlkwid.kwid
dmake.exe:  Error -- `C:\dev\fun\pugs\blib6\script\kwid' not found, an
+d can't be made
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'

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    Uncommenting the lines:

    #subdirs ::
#    $(NOECHO)cd ext\Kwid && $(MAKE) -f $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) all $(PASTHR
+U)

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    and

    clean_subdirs :
#    -cd ext\Kwid && $(TEST_F) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) && $(MAKE) clean
    -cd ext\Pugs-MakeMaker && $(TEST_F) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) && $(MAKE) c
+lean
    -cd ext\Test && $(TEST_F) $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) && $(MAKE) clean

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    lets me build Pugs. I haven't looked into the Makefile.PL to try and solve this, but MakeMaker makes my eyes water, so I think I'll leave it manipulating the generated Makefile ... I'm using ghc 6.2.2, dmake and fetch the code with darcs pull. At least it's possible ;)

    pernod
    --
    Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

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Re: Error When Making Pugs on Windows XP
by jbrugger (Parson) on Mar 14, 2005 at 08:23 UTC
    What version of perl are you using? Activestate, perl for win 32 or a cygwin port?
    If using activestate, look on their site, becouse they have their own version of the perl -MCPAN like command. (i don't know it exactly, since i don't use it, you ought to find it here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl)
    Ah found it, use ppm.
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Re: Error When Making Pugs on Windows XP
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 15, 2005 at 16:37 UTC
    goober99,
    This has been fixed - try the latest trunk. From autrijus - it's caused by space in path and makemaker's inability to deal with them.

    Cheers - L~R

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