Re^3: perl module problem

Warning: this distribution contains XS files,but Module::Build is not configured with C_support at C:/per/site/lib/module/build/base.pm line 1125

As far as I can tell KinoSearch-0.12 contains no XS files. At least there's none listed at http://search.cpan.org/~creamyg/KinoSearch-0.12/MANIFEST.

And I don't really understand the part about Module::Build not being configured with C support. (I haven't used Module::Build very much.) Do you have a C compiler ? You will need one if you want to build perl extensions (ie modules whose source contains XS files). With ActiveState build 817 you could use either Visual Studio or (the freely available) MinGW and dmake.

However, if it's just a matter of installing KinoSearch you could run:

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/KinoSearch.ppd

That would give you version 0.11 of that module. Is that ok ? The same repository can provide you with the KinoSearch pre-requisites (eg Lingua-Stem-Snowball). I expect you will be prompted to install the pre-requisites when you install the KinoSearch ppm. If you browse to http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ you can see the list of ppm's that are available there.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^4: perl module problem by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2006 at 11:58 UTC
i have solved this by using Install ExtUtils::ParseXS and it'll enable C_support for Module::Build Mohit	[reply]
Re^4: perl module problem by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2006 at 11:19 UTC
hi In my last post i wrote the complet flow what i used so i got that error. i have perl and c compiler both. i don't just want to install the kinosearch even i want to make a small search engine. http://www.rectangular.com/kinosearch/docs/stable/KinoSearch/Docs/Tutorial.html u can see the example given at this link...so i want to use this but i don't know how to proceed... plz if you can help me... Thanks Mohit	[reply]