That message originates from Activestate's ppm; see this link: http://community.activestate.com/node/7553
chris On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:36 PM, John M. Gamble wrote: > I don't know which upgrade brought this, but currently when I use Build.PL > (and the resulting Build files) I get (in reverse video no less) the > message: > > It looks like you don't have a C compiler on your PATH, so you will not be > able to compile C or XS extension modules. You can install GCC from the > MinGW package using the Perl Package Manager by running: > > ppm install MinGW > > I've become somewhat numb to it, but it's a completely pointless and > unhelpful message, since this machine I'm working on will never develop > anything in C. I haven't been able to find anything in Module::Build > documentation that tells me how to tell it that this is a pure Perl > module. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? > > I'm using ActiveState perl version 5.14.1, and Module::Build version 0.3800. > > Thanks, > -john > Chris Fields Senior Research Scientist National Center for Supercomputing Applications Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
