Re: CPAN install failure

You are on windows and do not have a 'make' command. See A guide to installing modules for Win32 and A Guide to Installing Modules. If you are using ActiveState perl, you should use ppm whenever possible, but I don't see a ppd for that module, so you will probably need to acquire and use nmake.exe and not make to manually install the module (or just copy the pm files to the appropriate places). I don't know if there is a way to tell CPAN.pm to use nmake.

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Re^2: CPAN install failure by randyk (Parson) on Sep 28, 2005 at 04:43 UTC
I believe the error reported of "'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" means that the unix-ish test() was used in the tests. This would probably mean that a package like cygwin is needed, which provides such a utility, to properly run the tests in this case. In general, as far as using CPAN.pm on Win32, if one acquires nmake and places it somewhere on the PATH, then the CPAN.pm configuration will register and use it when building modules. It's certainly true though that it's much easier on Win32 to use the ppm utility - I've just placed in our uwinnipeg repository a ppm package for HTML-WikiConverter. Also, for future reference, like crazyinsomniac, I'm also open to taking requests for making up Win32 ppm packages - you may want to first check our CPAN search utility to see if a ppm package already exists; the database used includes ppm packages in the ActiveState, crazyinsomniac, bribes, and uwinnipeg repositories.	[reply]

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Re^2: CPAN install failure
by randyk (Parson) on Sep 28, 2005 at 04:43 UTC

I believe the error reported of "'test' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" means that the unix-ish test() was used in the tests. This would probably mean that a package like cygwin is needed, which provides such a utility, to properly run the tests in this case.

In general, as far as using CPAN.pm on Win32, if one acquires nmake and places it somewhere on the PATH, then the CPAN.pm configuration will register and use it when building modules.

It's certainly true though that it's much easier on Win32 to use the ppm utility - I've just placed in our uwinnipeg repository a ppm package for HTML-WikiConverter. Also, for future reference, like crazyinsomniac, I'm also open to taking requests for making up Win32 ppm packages - you may want to first check our CPAN search utility to see if a ppm package already exists; the database used includes ppm packages in the ActiveState, crazyinsomniac, bribes, and uwinnipeg repositories.

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