in reply to Re^4: Win32::GUI Installation Errors
in thread Win32::GUI Installation Errors

I tried that, but I keep getting those same errors. I also tried installing the Perl/TK module as an alternative, but the installer returned the same error codes (although in different files.)

I'm afraid the problem must be somewhere on my computer or in what I'm doing because this is very strange. I've installed TK before without any trouble.

I'll try using an earlier version of Perl and see how that goes...

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Re^6: Win32::GUI Installation Errors
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 20, 2010 at 13:42 UTC

    Providing you have Strawberry Perl 5.10.1.x installed in c:\strawberry (and assuming the installation is not corrupted "somehow"), try this:

    1. open a new command prompt window (standard cmd.exe)

    2. run command: set PATH=c:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;c:\strawberry\perl\bin;c:\strawberry\c\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32

    3. now command "gcc --version" should return "gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)"

    4. command "perl -V:myuname" should return "myuname='Win32 strawberryperl 5.10.1.3 ...... i386';"

    5. command "dmake -V" should say "dmake - Version 4.8-20070327-SHAY (Windows / MS Visual C++)"

    6. command "cpan -i Win32::GUI" should install Win32::GUI module from CPAN without troubles

    --
    kmx

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      I followed your steps to the point and they all returned the expected values except the last one which gave me this: 
      dll.exp: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dmake:  Error code 129, while making '..\blib\arch\auto\Win32\GUI\Cons
+tants\Constants.dll'
dmake.EXE:  Error code 255, while making 'subdirs'
  ROBERTMAY/Win32-GUI/Win32-GUI-1.06.tar.gz
  C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

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      - Cbeppe
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        In the absence of a better idea, I guess we could look at trying to establish whether there's something wrong with dll.exp, or whether the recognition process is faulty.

        For me, Win32-GUI-1.06\Win32-GUI-Constants\dll.exp is 1,216 bytes in size and its various hex digests are: 
        MD5: 9488f6ef92ef88f3867d39f344aa8a8d
SHA1: dce9b72820949b476b2ad3c664a4253f6fe52581
SHA256: 5b8a8a51ee006032c8591aadb805c5b6d8ba4230dc540bd8eb4e126c62d56a
+f3

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        How does that compare with what you have ? (No need to reproduce all 3 digests - any 1 would be sufficient. And if the size of your dll.exp is not 1,216 bytes then there's no point in providing any hex digest.)

        Not sure if any of that will be at all useful, though I am curious to know if the dll.exp file that you have is faulty.
        Alternatively, if there's somewhere on the web to which you can upload that file, we could see for ourselves what it looks like.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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