in reply to Indigoperl and CPAN

Rob ("syphilis") Got past the first stage - then the 'perl -v:make' returned name as you correctly guessed, then tried 'nmake test' and it was reported that "nmake is not recogniszed as an internal, external command, operable program or bathc file". I would guess that I don't have "nmake" on my machine I forgot to mention in my original post that I don't have Microsoft DevStudio on my machine, nor a C compiler, which I have read are sometimes pre-requirements for installing modules for indigoperl. Apologies - IPM is indeed the equivalent of PPM

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Re^2: Indigoperl and CPAN
by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 14, 2009 at 12:25 UTC
    I would guess that I don't have "nmake" on my machine

    Yes - at least nmake.exe is not in your path. Nmake comes with MS compilers, and there are free versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler available that would give you fairly good mileage - best mileage would come from using the same version that Indigo used to build perl. Running perl -V:ccversion will give you the version number. (I'd be interested to know what that outputs on IndigoPerl.) For ActivePerl it reports '12.00.8804', which is Visual Studio 6.0.

    Other options include using the freely available 'dmake' and 'MinGW' port of the gcc compiler, in conjunction with ExtUtils::FakeConfig.

    Which path do you want to pursue first - being able to build modules from source, or getting IPM functioning ?

    Cheers,
    Rob
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