Could you please tell me about this Strawberry ? Thanks Sunita
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Murphy [mailto:mhysnm1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:06 PM To: Sisyphus; beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Windows 7 64 bit Make.exe file Hi guys, thanks. I have removed Active PERL and now are using strawberry to do my work. No problems with Strawberry and I can get rid of the MS C++ Express 2010 compiler. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sisyphus" <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> To: "Sean Murphy" <mhysnm1...@gmail.com>; <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Windows 7 64 bit Make.exe file > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sean Murphy" <mhysnm1...@gmail.com> > To: <beginners@perl.org> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 9:23 PM > Subject: Windows 7 64 bit Make.exe file > > > Hi all. > > I cannot install any CPAN libraries because CPAN complains that I don't > have a 64 bit Make executible. I have installed the Express 2010 C++ > package from Microsoft. It didn't help. > > ========================================= > > If you have ActivePerl, CPAN will be wanting to find nmake.exe - and I > would think nmake.exe would be part of the compiler package you installed. > > Having installed that compiler, you then usually need to run a batch file > (from the command line) prior to using it. That batch file (which ships > with the compiler) will alter the environment so that things like > nmake.exe, cl.exe and the various libraries and headers *do* get found. > Only thing is, I don't know exactly what the batch file is called - maybe > vcvarsall.bat or vcvars64.bat or vsvars64.bat or something like that ... > See if you can find it and give it a try. > > The ideal MS compiler to use with x64 ActivePerl builds is the "Microsoft > Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2", as that's the compiler used to > build x64 ActivePerl. It's still freely available for download from > Microsoft, but a bit tricky to get hold of - if you're not careful the > "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2" download links that > you follow morph into links that give you an updated version of that > compiler. (But it can be done if you find the right links.) > > For x64 Windows perl builds especially, Strawberry Perl is a simpler > proposition when it comes to installing modules using CPAN. (It uses the > dmake make utility, and the mingw-w64.sf port of the gcc compiler.) > > Cheers, > Rob > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/