in reply to Perl Module Installation in Windows XP

Maybe you want to tell us what you have tried already and where you encounter problems? In the CB you told us far more than in this node.

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Re^2: Perl Module Installation in Windows XP
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 25, 2008 at 08:17 UTC
    In CPAN when I fired "make" command the following error came : 
    cpan> make File::Grep
Running make for module File::Grep
Running make for M/MN/MNEYLON/File-Grep-0.02.tar.gz
  Is already unwrapped into directory C:\.cpan\build\File-Grep-0.02

  CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MN/MNEYLON/File-Grep-0.02.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for File::Grep
The system cannot find the path specified.
  C:\VStudio\VC98\bin\nmake.EXE  -- NOT OK

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Re^2: Perl Module Installation in Windows XP
by pankaj_it09 (Scribe) on Feb 25, 2008 at 08:31 UTC
    After that I installed nmake.exe as mentioned here:

    http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html

    I got the following things :- 
    
C:\apache2triad\perl\bin\File-Grep-0.02>perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for File::Grep

C:\apache2triad\perl\bin\File-Grep-0.02>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\apache2triad\Per
+l\libConfi
g.pm'
Stop.

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      At least your directory for running nmake.exe is different. In the anonymous post above, you have C:\.cpan\build\File-Grep-0.02 as the directory where File::Grep got unpacked into, but here you run the stuff in C:\apache2triad\perl\bin\File-Grep-0.02. I'm not sure what Makefile.PL or nmake are trying to do here. You should better try what you did within the cpan shell again.

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        I tried within the cpan shell.

        The problem remains the same.

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