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

Hi All, I am using Windows 7 (64 bit) with Active state 64 bit perl installed on my system. Now i want to use some modules e.g. Win32::GuiTest, now if i use ppm this module was listed not to be available in basic version of Active state perl and is available in buisness edition. So i tried CPAN for installing any module but i am having some problems. For successfully installing package, i downloaded minGW and added in my search path, also i downloaded dmake from cpan and added in same location. Now when i am trying to install any module from cpan following error is coming:- 
Writing Makefile for DBI
Writing MYMETA.yml
C:\perl64\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e "mkpath" -- blib\lib\DBI
C:perl64binperl.exe: not found
dmake.exe:  Error code 127, while making 'blib\lib\DBI\Changes.pm'
  TIMB/DBI-1.618.tar.gz
  C:\mingw\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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So i tried to install manually and i did following: 1. Downloaded package 2. did perl Makefile.pl I edited Makefile to have PERL path as C:\\perl64\\bin\\perl.exe 
50 C% make

C:\Perl64\cpan\build\DBI-1.618-FNuTFA>mingw32-make
C:\\perl64\\bin\\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e "mkpath" -- blib\lib\
+DBI
C:\\perl64\\bin\\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e "rm_f" -- blib\lib\DB
+I\Changes.
pm
C:\\perl64\\bin\\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e "cp" -- Changes blib\
+lib\DBI\Ch
anges.pm
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, rem, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make: *** [config] Error 2
51 C%

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Can anyone please help me on how to resolve this issue. Thanks in Advance, Sarbjit

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Re: Problem installing packages from cpan on windows 7
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2012 at 07:45 UTC

    I edited Makefile to have PERL path as C:\\perl64\\bin\\perl.exe

    Wrong approach. Simply use C:\perl64\bin\perl.exe to call Makefile.PL 

    C:\perl64\bin\perl.exe  Makefile.PL

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    See A Guide To Installing Modules

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      I tried it this way as well, but still get same error : 
      67 C% C:\perl64\bin\perl.exe makefile.pl
Set up gcc environment - 4.6.1
Writing Makefile for ExtUtils::FakeConfig
Writing MYMETA.yml
Using: 'dmake'
68 C% make

C:\Perl64\cpan\build\extutils-fakeconfig-0.12-ac7efk>mingw32-make
C:perl64binperl.exe: not found
mingw32-make: *** [blib\lib\ExtUtils\\.exists] Error 127
69 C%

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[d/l]
        Stop calling mingw32-make and call dmake
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