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in thread SOLVED (mostly): Tk Package Fails to Make

Hmmmm, there's definitely something wrong here

Yes, something is definitely wrong with MinGW. Which Windows OS do you have ?

Save the following script as try.c: 
int main (void) {
    return 0;
}

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Then cd to the directory that contains 'try.c' and run: 
gcc -o try.exe try.c -v

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What output do you get ?
(I'm still interested to see the perl -V output too, btw.)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^5: Tk Package Fails to Make - Next Crisis
by BJ_Covert_Action (Beadle) on Apr 10, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
    Oh, cap 'V,' yep didn't pick up on that. Alright, perl -V gives me: 

    Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration
+:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.1, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=und
+ef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPL
+ICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_R
+EADFIX',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.5', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long lo
+ng', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\straw
+berry\c\lib"'
    libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib
    libs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -
+lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -
+lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
    perllibs= -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspo
+ol -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luu
+id -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32
    libc=-lmsvcrt, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl510.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE
+" -L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_ITHREADS
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Jan 29 2009 20:56:38
  @INC:
    C:/strawberry/perl/lib
    C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
    .

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    I am running on windows XP and I am pretty sure our office is up to using SP3. I can double check on that though if you need those details. Running the gcc command on try.c, as you described, yields: 

    Reading specs from C:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1\specs
gcc version 2.8.1
 C:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1\cpp.exe -lang-c -v -unde
+f -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=8 -Di386 -D_WIN32 -DWIN32 -D__WIN32__
+ -D__MINGW32__ -DWINNT -D_X86_=1 -D__STDC__=1 -D__stdcall=__a
ttribute__((__stdcall__)) -D__cdecl=__attribute__((__cdecl__)) -D__i38
+6__ -D_WIN32 -D__WIN32__ -D__WIN32__ -D__MINGW32__ -D__WINNT__ -D_X86
+_=1 -D__STDC__=1 -D__stdcall=__attribute__((__stdcall__)) -D_
_cdecl=__attribute__((__cdecl__)) -D__i386 -D__WIN32 -D__WINNT -Asyste
+m(winnt) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -remap -Di386 -Di586 -Asystem(un
+ix) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -D__i386__ -D__i586__ -Asyste
m(unix) -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) try.c C:\DOCUME~1\BJACKS~1.SLC\LOC
+ALS~1\Temp\cca00264.i
GNU CPP version 2.8.1 (80386, BSD syntax)
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 C:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1\include
End of search list.
 C:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1\cc1.exe C:\DOCUME~1\BJAC
+KS~1.SLC\LOCALS~1\Temp\cca00264.i -quiet -dumpbase try.c -version -o 
+C:\DOCUME~1\BJACKS~1.SLC\LOCALS~1\Temp\cca00264.s
GNU C version 2.8.1 (pentium-mingw32msv) compiled by GNU C version 2.8
+.1.
 as -o C:\DOCUME~1\BJACKS~1.SLC\LOCALS~1\Temp\cca002641.o C:\DOCUME~1\
+BJACKS~1.SLC\LOCALS~1\Temp\cca00264.s
 ld -o try.exe C:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1\crt2.o -LC
+:\GNAT\lib\gcc-lib\pentium-mingw32msv\2.8.1 -LC:\GNAT\lib -LC:\GNAT\l
+ib C:\DOCUME~1\BJACKS~1.SLC\LOCALS~1\Temp\cca002641.o -lmingw
32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmsvcrt -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32
+ -lgcc -lmoldname -lmsvcrt

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    It looks like I have a version of gcc installed from my GNAT development environment that might be conflicting with the one installed with strawberry perl. Does that sound right? Does that even matter?

    Thank you again for all the help =)

    Cheers.

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      It looks like I have a version of gcc installed from my GNAT development environment that might be conflicting with the one installed with strawberry perl.

      Yes, that's not strawberry's gcc. Can you rename 'C:/GNAT' to 'C:/GNAT_hide' (so that the system can't find it), then re-run the CPAN install of Math::FFT. Hopefully the CPAN install will then work fine.

      Then, assuming you do need that GNAT gcc, you just have to work out how to manage the co-existence of those 2 versions of gcc. Another way would be to make sure that C:/strawberry/c/bin is at the start of your path envvar whenever you want to use that version of gcc. To achieve that just run: 
      set PATH=C:\strawberry\c\bin;%PATH%

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      That will ensure that strawberry's gcc is found instead of GNAT's. (You'll need to re-run that command every time you open up a cmd.exe shell that needs to find strawberry's gcc - unless you make that your permanent path setting.)

      The best thing would be to remove the GNAT version, if possible.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        Oh beautiful! I changed the envar path to GNAT_hide as you mentioned and Math::FFT gave me:

        Read more... (7 kB)

        ...as a good install command should. As for the Bundle::CPAN install, I am now showing:

        Read more... (24 kB)

        ...so I tried the reports PMQS/IO-Compress-2.017.tar.gz command and was told to see:  http://www.cpantesters.org/show/IO-Compress.html for details. I went to said website and found and intriguing looking table with some info about successful installs on windows and windows cygwin systems. However, this is my cherry visit to the CPANtesters site so I am not sure what I am looking for...

        On the other side of the realm, I did try and install of Tk again and managed to do a successful install (apparently) since I was rewarded with a final message of: 

        Appending installation info to C:\strawberry\perl\lib/perllocal.pod
  SREZIC/Tk-804.028.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE install UNINST=1 -- OK

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        So maybe there is just something funny with me trying to update and install the CPAN module?.

        As for the GNAT version of gcc, I don't really use GNAT much so I may just move that path to the end of my PATH variable, or take it out entirely, or something else. GNAT is on this system because it is commonly used amongst our other employees, but I haven't found a use for Ada yet that I couldn't do in either perl or matlab (mostly perl). So yeah.

        Thanks to everyone for all of the help. Between this and my consistent breaking of my linux box at home (I play with things I don't know anything about all to freely) I have been learning a ton about unix syntax and structure in general. I'm looking forward to learning more from all of you.

        If anyone has any further advice or ideas regarding my updating the CPAN module, I would love to hear them.

        Cheers for now,

        Brady

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