Thanks for that.

I was able to build and run try.cpp successfully.

I'd like to try other modules, how can I find out which ones require the 'C' compiler? as I want to build a module that has the same compiler requirements as PAR-Packer

I have been in dialogle with CPAN before I came to perlmonks and they suggested I had a corrupt installation of MingW, which I re-installed, but still had the problem

CPAN said that the files mentioned in the error messages (C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\MinGW\lib\libmsvcrt.a) were installed by MingW and have no connection to PAR and PAR::Packer.

Please could you let me know of an alternative package I can try to build

Thanks

Richard

I'd like to try other modules, how can I find out which ones require the 'C' compiler?

Any module whose source contains .xs files will require the C compiler. However, the particular failure here seems to be related to the building of an executable (par.exe) using g++.exe ... and I don't know of any modules OTTOMH that will do the same.

they suggested I had a corrupt installation of MingW

That's what it looks to me, too ... but we haven't yet managed to uncorrupt it.

If you can be bothered, provide me with a copy'n'paste of the outputs of the following:
1) gcc -v
2) g++ -v
3) dmake -V
and I'll make sure that I get the exact same packages. Maybe then I'll be able to reproduce the failure ... and if I can do that, then we should be able to come up with a fix.

However, I'm about to go to bed now, and I won't be back around on perlmonks for approximately another 20 hours ... so there's no real hurry to provide those details :-)

Cheers,
Rob

Hi Rob,

I've ran those commands, please let me know if that sheds any light on it.

C:\Perl>gcc -v
Reading specs from C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/
+3.4.5/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure --with-gcc --with-g
+nu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw -
+-enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,j
+ava --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exception
+s --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boe
+hm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchron
+ization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)

C:\Perl>g++ -v
Reading specs from C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/
+3.4.5/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure --with-gcc --with-g
+nu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw -
+-enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,j
+ava --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exception
+s --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boe
+hm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchron
+ization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)

C:\Perl>dmake -V
dmake.exe - Version 4.11-20080107-SHAY (Windows / MS Visual C++)
Copyright (c) 1990,...,1997 by WTI Corp.

Default Configuration:
        MAXLINELENGTH := 32766
        MAXPROCESSLIMIT := 4
        MAXPROCESS := 1
        .IMPORT .IGNORE: DMAKEROOT
        .MAKEFILES : makefile.mk makefile
        .SOURCE    : .NULL
        DMAKEROOT *= $(ABSMAKECMD:d)startup
        MAKESTARTUP := $(DMAKEROOT)\startup.mk

Please read the NEWS file for the latest release notes.

C:\Perl>
[download]

Thanks again

Richard.