On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> > >> > Cygwin updated perl to 5.14.2 on my system and now I can’t compile >> > XML::LibXML. It seems that >> > >> > c:\lib\perl5\5.14\i686-cygwin-threads-64int\Config.pm >> > >> > expects cc to be gcc-4. Gcc-4 doesn’t exist yet, it seems. What’s >> > going on here? >> >> Sorry, scratch that, gcc-4 is available. I got confused by the separate >> version schemes (which I realize are necessary, but easy to miss when >> you’re a bit stressed out.) > > Did Cygwin "setup.exe" prompt you to install the "gcc-4" package when you > updated perl? > > I thought "setup.exe" would prompt the user if any additional packages needed > to be installed.
no. gcc-4, make and more are not automatically installed with perl. you will only need when you compile your own XS packages with cpan. XML::LibXML is included in the new package perl_vendor -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple