in reply to How to install without PPM?

My Windows ME laptop has Activestate Perl 5.6.1 installed along with Cygwin, a free program from Cgynus Solutions which creates a Bash shell under Windows.

I am trying to install Inline to Activestate Perl from inside Cygwin using the familiar gunzip->tar->Makefile.PL->make->make install sequence of commands.

So I downloaded the Inline tar.gz file and tried it. I get a general protections fault when I run 'perl Makefile.PL'

Installing a Perl module this way should work. Does anyone know why I am getting this error when I try and install Inline without ppm?

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Re: Re: How to install without PPM?
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 01, 2001 at 19:05 UTC
    Your error may have to do with Cygwin; the ActiveState Perl is set up to work from CMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM. Try running perl Makefile.PL from the stock Windows command line interpreter. You will also need nmake from Microsoft (freely available, see one of the WIndows Perl FAQ's) unless you re-configure to use a different make utility.

    Also make sure when you try the stock interpreter that your environment variable SHELL is unset, and that COMSPEC points to the stock CLI (it should).

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      I couldn't find nmake from Microsoft where it used to be. I'd use the make replacement written in Perl as also mentioned in the FAQs or found following my link elsewhere in this thread.

      Update: Thanks, bikeNomad. I've updated my other note to have both links now.

              - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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