Installing Template Toolkit on win32

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

I am attempting to install Template Toolkit on win32. ActiveState doesn't have ppm support for this module, so I am trying to use CPAN. I see the following:

...
Running the make test
The name specified is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
   test -- NOT OK
...
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I saw on the FAQ that I should be using "nmake" instead of "make". I've downloaded "nmake". What do I do to make the install process use nmake instead of make? Or am I missing other pieces as well?

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Re: Installing Template Toolkit on win32 by Masem (Monsignor) on Apr 23, 2001 at 03:50 UTC
You need to point CPAN to nmake, which you can do by going into CPAN interactive mode, and issuing the command `o conf make path/to/nmake` [download] Note that you make have to download more if command like 'mv' or 'cp' are used in the install script. If you need unix-like tools for Win32, you might want to download Cygwin tools to make this work. Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Installing Template Toolkit on win32 by voyager (Friar) on Apr 23, 2001 at 05:05 UTC
Thank you Masem. I have a simple example working. Anyone trying to get CPAN to work on win32 may need to fetch ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe. Note this is an installer, not the the make replacement. Need to set the config option as Masem describes above. Question: I had to do a `force install` because of errors I got due to the absence of `getpwuid` which isn't implemented on win32. What is this going to do to me?	[reply]