----- Original Message -----
From: "Guohong Hu" <hu.guoh...@gmail.com>
To: <inline@perl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:41 PM
Subject: running inline in win7
Hi, recently I re-installed my system and switched to win7, so had to
re-install many of the perl modules, including inline. The installation
went
fine,
Given that windows.h cannot be found, I would expect that the 'make test'
step would have produced numerous failures (for precisely that reason).
but when I ran scripts with inline, it always returned an error saying
"c:\programs\perl\lib\core\win32.h(61) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open
include file: 'windows.h': No such file or directory".
You're missing 'windows.h'. With later Microsoft Compilers, I think this
file is included in the SDK which, I think, might be an additional download
that you have to do if you're using a freely available version of MSVC++.
I'm not really up to speed with Microsoft Compilers - all I know is that,
with my MSVC++ 7.0, 'windows.h' is in the Vc7\PlatformSDK\Include folder.
Search your entire Visual Studio for the file 'windows.h' - if it's not
there then you certainly need to download the SDK for that particular
compiler.
You should also strike a similar error whenever you currently build *any*
perl extension - eg try Math::FFT from CPAN. That is, it's not only
Inline::C that suffers from this missing file.
Cheers,
Rob
