Hello,

I installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 and now I am installing modules.
nmake.exe works quite nicely. Usually. When I tried
to install Tk-804.027, nmake choked with this message

NMAKE : fatal error U1095: expanded command line 'ar -ru < removed huge list of file names > ' too long

Others seem to be experiencing this with other big modules, and with other
languages. The best fix seems to be to upgrade to nmake version 7.10.
I am using version 1.5 now. Unfortunately, neither the article authors
nor Microsoft say where to find it, and searching the web does not
seem to help.

Any ideas?

In reply to nmake expanded command line too long by mnooning

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