Prerequisite warning while installing a module in windows

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

Hello

I am trying to install a module in C:\lib directory and specified the following option:-

perl makefile.pl PREFIX=C:\lib LIB=C:\lib (as explained in the tutorial pages) but I get the following error:-

C:\downloads\Tie-Autotie-0.01>perl makefile.pl PREFIX=C:\lib LIB=C:\li
+b
Warning: prerequisite Tie::IxHash failed to load: Can't locate Tie/IxH
+ash.pm in
@INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at (eval 4) line 
+3.
Writing Makefile for Tie::Autotie
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I am not sure as to why @INC is not picking up the C:\lib path as I have already installed Tie\IxHash.pm in C:\lib directory.

Please advice

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Re: Prerequisite warning while installing a module in windows by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 25, 2006 at 22:19 UTC
This is kinda what PERL5LIB is for. Kinda. But it is useful for this - I do something very similar in automatically installing a bunch of modules during a build process - but they get installed into the build tree. So my script just sets PERL5LIB to include the lib directory I'm installing to, and then sets PREFIX and LIB, or --install_base, depending on whether it's a Makefile.PL or Build.PL-based distribution, and then prereqs are found. In your case, you may want to just set PERL5LIB=C:\lib in your system environment, start a new shell, and then work from there. (Maybe - I can't completely tell why you're using a local install path, there are so many reasons why you might be doing this.) Good luck.	[reply]
Re: Prerequisite warning while installing a module in windows by Anonymous Monk on Jun 25, 2006 at 21:22 UTC
Update: I included `BEGIN { push @INC, 'C:\lib' };` in Makefile.pl and it worked!! But, I expected C:\lib path to be icluded to @INC when I said `perl makefile.pl PREFIX=C:\lib LIB=C:\lib` ? Am I missing something here?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Prerequisite warning while installing a module in windows by shmem (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2006 at 06:53 UTC
Maybe `perl -Mlib=C:\lib makefile.pl PREFIX=C:\lib LIB=C:\lib` ? --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l]