How do folks build modules under cygwin perl?

gregor-e has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I installed a fresh copy of the latest cygwin on a new laptop. I grabbed a copy of nmake.exe from Microsoft, since that's the usual make one needs, and put it in the System32 folder. I fired up CPAN and tried to install Flickr::API. Along the way, it choked, saying:

NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '/usr/lib/perl5/5.10
+/i686-cygwin/Config.pm'
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Okay, so this looks like nmake, a DOS utility, is befuddled by a cygwin pseudo-UNIX path. Now, surely there must be zillions of people using perl under cygwin, adding modules, etc. How do y'all do it? Is there a proper make utility for cygwin perl other than nmake that I should be using instead?

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Re: How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by roboticus (Chancellor) on Feb 20, 2009 at 23:42 UTC
gregor-e: I downloaded the gcc packages, and then in a bash shell I do the usual: `perl Makefile.pl make make test make install` [download] or `perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install` [download] It works pretty well. Most things just work: DBI-1.601, DBD-ODBC-1.15_2, OLE::Storage_Lite, Parse::RecDescent, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, Unicode::Map, IO-stringy-2.110, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, List-MoreUtils-0.22, SQL-Statement-1.15, Convert-EBCDIC-0.06, Class-Accessor-0.31, Params-Validate-0.91, Data-Dump-1.08, Test-Simple-0.80, Test-Exception-0.27, Array-Compare-1.16, Tree-DAG_Node-1.06, Test-Warn-0.10, Tree-1.01 and many others. ...roboticus	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 20, 2009 at 22:51 UTC
nmake can be made to work by using win32 path names, I've done it. However, the easiest way to proceed is gnu make and gcc	[reply]
Re^2: How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by gregor-e (Beadle) on Feb 20, 2009 at 23:43 UTC
Thanks. I had installed gcc but not make. (You'd think make would just automatically come with gcc, wouldn't you?)	[reply]
Re^3: How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 21, 2009 at 07:47 UTC
You'd think make would just automatically come with gcc, wouldn't you? What a bizzare idea :) What packages should I download? Where are 'make', 'gcc', 'vi', etc?	[reply]
Re: How do folks build modules under cygwin perl? by misterwhipple (Monk) on Feb 21, 2009 at 01:03 UTC
Some modules require g++ to build, which was not installed in cygwin automatically with gcc, best I can remember. `cat >~/.sig </dev/interesting`	[reply] [d/l]