Win XP perl makefile.pl

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

I am trying to install Graph.pm onto Windows XP using ...

perl makefile.pl

When I run that, I get the following:

C:\Perl\site\lib\Graph-0.80>perl makefile.pl
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good

Error: Unable to locate installed Perl libraries or Perl source code.

It is recommended that you install perl in a standard location before building extensions. Some precompiled versions of perl do not contain these header files, so you cannot build extensions. In such a case, please build and install your perl from a fresh perl distribution. It usually solves this kind of problem.

(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find "C:\p4view\Apps\ActivePerl\MSI\data\ActivePerl\Perl\lib\CORE\perl.h")
I have run Perl -V and (amongst other things) I can see the line
Linker and Libraries:
ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -
libpath:"C:\p4view\Apps\ActivePerl\MSI\data\ActivePerl\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'
I am now stuck.

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Re: Win XP perl makefile.pl by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 02, 2006 at 20:49 UTC
You say `perl -V` returns `libpath:"C:\p4view\Apps\ActivePerl\MSI\data\ActivePerl\Perl\lib\CORE" -machine:x86'` What does the content of that directory look like? (Have you checked?) Contents should be something like this, I think: `10/02/2006 09:27 AM <DIR> . 10/02/2006 09:27 AM <DIR> .. 10/02/2006 09:27 AM <DIR> arpa 07/09/2003 10:10 PM 3,131 av.h 08/29/2006 11:36 AM 1,316 BuildInfo.h 07/09/2003 10:10 PM 2,280 cc_runtime.h 10/02/2006 09:28 AM 140,057 config.h 09/21/2005 08:32 AM 18,992 cop.h 01/02/2006 09:42 AM 8,202 cv.h 05/25/2000 12:12 AM 1,294 dirent.h 08/07/2006 02:00 PM 5,983 dosish.h 02/07/2006 07:50 PM 154,597 embed.h` ...etc. Another question: Did you deliberately install ActiveState's perl to something other than its default path? In fact, that libpath (esp the `p4view\apps` section) is something that to me looks suspect (NOT "impossible" but damned odd!) in light of your quoted `makefile` command line, `C:\Perl\site\lib\Graph-0.80>perl makefile.pl` HTH	[reply]
Re: Win XP perl makefile.pl by hj4jc (Beadle) on Nov 02, 2006 at 21:54 UTC
I assume you're using ActiveState perl. The easiest way to install modules on windows is using ppm. You might want to take a look at A guide to installing modules for Win32	[reply]
Re: Win XP perl makefile.pl by chorny (Scribe) on Nov 02, 2006 at 22:45 UTC
Which version of perl do you have? I assume it is broken (or broken install). If you can - download latest perl from ActiveState and reinstall. Created ppm of last version of Graph.pm. Download http://chorny.net/perlmod/Graph-0.80.zip, unpack and run 'install.bat'.	[reply]