trying to use inline c

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

Dear Monks, I'm trying to use inline C with ActivePerl 5.10.0 on a Windows XP machine. I've tried everything I can find in help files and various websites to get it to work, but I continue to get the error: 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command I've installed Visual C++ 6.0 and downloaded nmake15 from msdn and I've also tried Visual C++ 8.0 with the included nmake utility. Can someone please, please help? Do I need to be running my perl scripts from certain directories? Or have the cl.exe and nmake in certain places? I'm so confused!

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Re: trying to use inline c by Joost (Canon) on Apr 26, 2008 at 00:13 UTC
You probably at least need to have the directories containing cl.exe and nmake.exe in your PATH environment variable (you can probably also run vcvars32.bat to do that for you before installing the module; see A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++). This is to make sure that unqualified "nmake" and "cl" commands will be resolved to the correct programs. A google search on path environment & windows will probably help too. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: trying to use inline c by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 27, 2008 at 00:39 UTC
rebeltofu, AS Perl has worked with MinGW out of the box for some time now. Have you tried that route? Cheers - L~R	[reply]