beta quality

s/beta/alpha/

Environment manipulation on install/uninstall leaves a lot to be desired, still. It's the top entry on the Vanilla Perl Feature Backlog.

Compile attempts fail - see snippets below - I'm trying to install Date::Calc. The pre-req Bit::Vector fails ...

cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pod blib\lib\Bit\Vector\String.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pm blib\lib\Bit\Vector\String.pm
gcc -c          -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
+XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_S
YS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -s -O2      -DVERSION=\"
+6.4\"     -DXS_VERSI
ON=\"6.4\"  "-IC:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE"   BitVector.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or director
+y
dmake.EXE:  Error code 129, while making 'BitVector.o'
  C:\strawberry-perl\dmake\bin\dmake.EXE  -- NOT OK
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cp Calc.pm blib\lib\Date\Calc.pm
C:\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl.exe C:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\ExtUt
+ils\xsubpp  -typemap
 C:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap  Calc.x
+s > Calc.xsc && C:\s
trawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e mv Calc.xsc Ca
+lc.c
gcc -c          -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
+XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_S
YS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -s -O2      -DVERSION=\"
+5.4\"     -DXS_VERSI
ON=\"5.4\"  "-IC:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE"   Calc.c
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or director
+y
dmake.EXE:  Error code 129, while making 'Calc.o'
  C:\strawberry-perl\dmake\bin\dmake.EXE  -- NOT OK
Running make test
...
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Update 1:I made marginal progress on this, by copying cc1.exe from C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\mingw32\bin (which is NOT in the PATH) to C:\strawberry-perl\dmake\bin which IS in the PATH. The process now finds, and runs cc1, but there is a new issue:

It appears that the INCLUDE path C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\include is being ignored - the compile fails because it cannot find a multitude of header (.h) files. Please help - I am not a C programmer.

Writing Makefile for Bit::Vector
Writing patchlevel.h for C:\strawberry-perl\perl\bin\perl.exe (5.00800
+8)
cp lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pm blib\lib\Bit\Vector\Overload.pm
cp Vector.pm blib\lib\Bit\Vector.pm
cp Vector.pod blib\lib\Bit\Vector.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/Overload.pod blib\lib\Bit\Vector\Overload.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pod blib\lib\Bit\Vector\String.pod
cp lib/Bit/Vector/String.pm blib\lib\Bit\Vector\String.pm
gcc -c          -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE
+XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_S
YS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -s -O2      -DVERSION=\"
+6.4\"     -DXS_VERSI
ON=\"6.4\"  "-IC:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\CORE"   BitVector.c
BitVector.c:8:80: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
BitVector.c:9:80: limits.h: No such file or directory
BitVector.c:10:80: string.h: No such file or directory
BitVector.c:11:80: ctype.h: No such file or directory
BitVector.c: In function `BitVector_Error':
BitVector.c:508: error: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
BitVector.c:508: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only o
+nce
BitVector.c:508: error: for each function it appears in.)
BitVector.c: In function `BitVector_Boot':
BitVector.c:547: error: `size_t' undeclared (first use in this functio
+n)
BitVector.c:580: error: `NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
... many more syntax errors because it cannot find .h files ......
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Finally got Date::Calc and dependents to compile and install after a few more hacks:

copy C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\include C:\strawbe
+rry-perl\perl\lib\CORE

copy /s C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\include C:\strawberry-perl\perl\lib\C
+ORE
set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\strawberry-perl\mingw\lib;C:\strawberry-perl\mingw
+\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5
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I have never posted a per bug report before, and am a little shy on that - is this an appropriate thing to post on their forum ?

I installed strawberry-perl-5.8.8-alpha-2.exe, and Bit-Vector-6.4 builds and installs cleanly for me. ('cc1.exe' is not in my path.)

I don't know what accounts for the difference that you and I are seeing. (Do you ?) Perhaps someone a little closer to the development of Strawbewrry Perl can provide an understanding.

Cheers,
Rob

Sorry I missed this back in December. This looks like a problem with PATH, LIB and INCLUDE being set properly on installation. Were you running with administrator privileges? (If you remember at this point, that is.) Strawberry probably needs to provide a better warning to the user if it is not able to set the PATH appropriately. Thanks for being patient with it.

-xdg

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Don't copy/paste files, modify your %PATH%, %INCLUDE% ... on the other hand, install a stable release (vanilla, not strawberry).