Merciful monks, I am struggling up the catalyst learning curve, on which I will be basing a magical multiuser accounting package that will make the world a better place. (If it ever makes it out of vaporware -:)

I am developing on windows, with active state.

Got a scaffolded server configured following sri's demo. Now I want to try the catalyst OOTB login, Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI.

Problem is, that requires (a couple links down the dependency chain) Cache::FastMmap. No ppm for that, and when I tried the usually magical 

perl makefile.pl
nmake test
nmake install

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I got 

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

    cl -c  -I.  -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOL
+E -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEX
+T -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DND
+EBUG -O1    -DVERSION=\"1.09\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"1.09\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib
+\CORE"   CImpl.c
Der Befehl "cl" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x2'
Stop.

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What is cl, and how do I get this to work on windows?

I have installed the MinGW-4.1.1.exe and MSYS-1.0.10.exe packages from the mingw download site, but I admit I don't really know what to do with them. When I ran msys (or should that have been mingw?) and tried with nmake, I got the same error as before. When I tried with make instead of nmake I got 

Benutzername@ALLISON /d/Cache-FastMmap-1.09/Cache-FastMmap-1.09
$ make test
Makefile:336: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.

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I have also read nmake says "cl" is not recognized, where another monk had a similar problem, but the remedies tachyon suggested there (ppm install or get mingw) haven't worked so far.

Helllp!

Or should I just forget about getting Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::CDBI working on windows, stiffen my upper lip, and roll my own authentication?

In reply to trouble installing Catalyst helper Authentication::CDBI on windows (cl fails) by tphyahoo

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