set up mingw-dmake environment

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

First of all: Hello Monks ;-)

Perl -V 5.12.3

I want to use the Module Expect.
Requirements:
Expect
IO::Stty
IO::Tty
IO::Pty

AFAIK there are 2 ways to install a module:
- cpan shell
- ppm

ppm do not display io-pty s.o. for that i decided to go with cpan

cpan tells me that i got to get mingw and dmake.
1.question: how i can set vars in o conf? to get fresh with dmake? anybody got a good tut for installing it?
2.question: whats up with mingw? i started to install a 32bit version with msys shell. but cpan didn´t
recognize it. google gives me nothinh to work with. i´m helpless ;-)

probably there´s a guide or something else?!

i know => RTFM .. please tell me which one ;-)

$perlig =~ s/pec/cep/g if 'errors expected';

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Re: set up mingw-dmake environment by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 22, 2011 at 15:09 UTC
Type the following from the command line to install MinGW and buildtools (dmake): `c:\ppm install mingw`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: set up mingw-dmake environment by AlexTape (Monk) on Mar 22, 2011 at 16:10 UTC
i were happy if it works ;-) but it doesn´t ;-) result => "ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides mingw" the simple ways i tried already ^^ $perlig =~ s/pec/cep/g if 'errors expected';	[reply]
Re^3: set up mingw-dmake environment by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 22, 2011 at 17:09 UTC
I bet you have a 64-bit version of Perl. There's no mingw package for it, but you can install it yourself. See Re: Missing nmake - 64bit, Windows 7. (I'd try it without (d) first.) Or you could simply install a 32-bit version of Perl.	[reply]
Re^4: set up mingw-dmake environment by AlexTape (Monk) on Mar 22, 2011 at 17:13 UTC
Re^3: set up mingw-dmake environment by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 22, 2011 at 16:18 UTC
Well this has always worked for me in the past. Which version of Perl do you have? Can you install anything via PPM? See How to install CPAN modules into ActivePerl	[reply]
Re^4: set up mingw-dmake environment by AlexTape (Monk) on Mar 22, 2011 at 16:40 UTC
Re^5: set up mingw-dmake environment by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 22, 2011 at 18:46 UTC
Re: set up mingw-dmake environment by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 22, 2011 at 14:19 UTC
So far I'm unaware that Expect works on Windows at all. Also, IO::Pty is unlikely to work on Windows, as Windows has a different concept of "consoles" than Unixish OSes have.	[reply]
Re^2: set up mingw-dmake environment by AlexTape (Monk) on Mar 22, 2011 at 14:26 UTC
good to know ;-) is there any other way to do the same as expect does on a windows platform? $perlig =~ s/pec/cep/g if 'errors expected';	[reply]
Re^3: set up mingw-dmake environment by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2011 at 23:41 UTC
http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/expect	[reply]