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My apologies - I did not read your post carefully enough and failed to notice the missing '\'. I've seen this problem before ... damn, I can't recall where it comes from, and I don't have time to investigate right now .... is it a bug in Extutils::MakeMaker ? or a bug in the ActivePerl configuration ? I think ExtUtils::MakeMaker might be the culprit. What is revealed when you run: 
perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e "print $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION"

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What's the build number of your Active Perl ? ('perl -v' will tell you, if you're unsure.)

In the Makefile that was generated when you ran 'perl Makefile.PL', check that you have something like: 
# --- MakeMaker constants section:
AR_STATIC_ARGS = cr
DIRFILESEP = \\
DFSEP = $(DIRFILESEP)

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What do you have for "DIRFILESEP" ? Iirc, that's where the problem lies. I'll try to dig up more tomorrow, when I have time. In the meantime, hopefully someone else can fill in the gaps :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^6: how to install perlmodules in windowsXP
by veeruch (Sexton) on Mar 06, 2007 at 10:24 UTC
    Hi Rob,
    if iam giving,
    perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -e "print $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION"
    out put is:
    Set up gcc environment - 3.4.2 (mingw-special) 6.30
    perl -v
    This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
    Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
    Binary build 817 257965 provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com Built Mar 20 2006 17:54:25
    Makefile Information

    AR_STATIC_ARGS = cr
    DIRFILESEP = ^\
    DFSEP = $(DIRFILESEP)
    NAME = Net::Telnet
    NAME_SYM = Net_Telnet
    VERSION = 3.03
    VERSION_MACRO = VERSION
    VERSION_SYM = 3_03
    DEFINE_VERSION = -D$(VERSION_MACRO)=\"$(VERSION)\"
    XS_VERSION = 3.03
    XS_VERSION_MACRO = XS_VERSION
    XS_DEFINE_VERSION = -D$(XS_VERSION_MACRO)=\"$(XS_VERSION)\"
    INST_ARCHLIB = blib\arch
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      In your perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm you should have: 
      sub init_DIRFILESEP {
    my($self) = shift;

    # The ^ makes sure its not interpreted as an escape in nmake
    $self->{DIRFILESEP} = $NMAKE ? '^\\' :
                          $DMAKE ? '\\\\'
                                 : '\\';
}

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      Change the code so that it is as above, and see if that fixes things. (Remove the existing Makefile and start with 'perl Makefile.PL' again.) The fact that you have '^\' leads me to believe that ActivePerl is probably finding 'nmake' - and writing a Makefile that is compatible with 'nmake', not 'dmake'. ActivePerl will accept either - it will wrtite a Makefile suited to the one that it finds first when searching the path environment variable. Both 'nmake' and 'dmake' should work fine with the MinGW compiler on ActiveState perl, so it shouldn't really matter which is found first. (As I've mentioned elsewhere, my personal preference is 'dmake' - but feel free to stick with 'nmake' if you like.) But if ActivePerl has written a Makefile to be used with 'nmake' then you can't build using 'dmake' - and if the Makefile has been written for use with 'dmake' then you can't use 'nmake'.

      To verify precisely which flavour of make is being found, run: 
      perl -V:make

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      That will tell you which 'make' utility you need to use.
      Let us know if that still doesn't work.

      Cheers,
      Rob Update:Rewritten .... to be hopefully a little clearer and more to the point
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        Hi Rob,
        My code in perl/lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm same as you.
        sub init_DIRFILESEP {
    my($self) = shift;

    # The ^ makes sure its not interpreted as an escape in nmake
    $self->{DIRFILESEP} = $NMAKE ? '^\\' :
                          $DMAKE ? '\\\\'
                                 : '\\';
}

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        perl -V:make is giving
        make='nmake';
        then i can't use dmake?.
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