Try checking your PATH environment variable. Also, are you 64-bit or 32-bit? There could be something honked up in WOW64 (the 32-bit environment) if you're on 64-bit. Start/Run uses an API call that includes checking HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths. When you type cmd.exe in a Command Prompt, only the PATH is used to locate EXEs. That's why you can type conf.exe from Start/Run and it starts C:\Program Files\NetMeeting\conf.exe, but if you type conf.exe from a Command Prompt in any folder except C:\Program Files\NetMeeting, it can't find it.
Toby Ovod-Everett AT&T Alaska Information Services 907.264.7620 This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are AT&T property, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this email is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:szab...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:16 PM To: wxPerl users Subject: Alien-wxWidgets-0.52 failure on 5.10.1 I already have Alien::wxWidgets 0.4601 installed on this machine with perl 5.10.1 I also have Alien::wxWidgets 0.52 installed on the same machine in 5.12.3 (I just keep renaming the c:\strawberry directories to have the right perl in them) Now when I tried to upgrade Alien::wxWidgets on th 5.10.1 installation, staring from a command window I got this. Strangely I can run "cmd" from the Start/Run thingy but once the window is open if I type in cmd or cmd.exe I am told: 'cmd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I am not sure how I managed to install it on the same machine using 5.12.3... C:\Documents and Settings\Gabor Szabo>cpan Alien::wxWidgets Database was generated on Tue, 24 May 2011 18:41:05 GMT Running install for module 'Alien::wxWidgets' Running make for M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.52.tar.gz Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets- 0.52.tar.gz Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\M\MD\MDOOTSON\Alien-wxWidgets-0.52 .tar.gz ok CPAN.pm: Going to build M/MD/MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.52.tar.gz Creating new 'MYMETA.yml' with configuration results Creating new 'Build' script for 'Alien-wxWidgets' version '0.52' Building Alien-wxWidgets Fetching wxWidgets... fetching from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.12.tar.gz Extracting wxWidgets... Error listing contents of archive 'C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Alien-wxWidgets-0.52-0mBDLo\wxWidgets-2.8.12.t ar.gz': at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 322 Patching wxWidgets... Applying patch: C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Alien-wxWidgets-0.52-0mBDLo\patches\wxMSW-2.8.0 -setup_u.patch perl -pe "" -- C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Alien-wxWidgets-0.52-0mBDLo\patches\wxMSW-2.8.0 -setup_u.patch | ..\inc\bin\patch.exe -N -p0 -u -b -z .bak Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 342. Error: 65280 at inc/My/Build/Base.pm line 342. MDOOTSON/Alien-wxWidgets-0.52.tar.gz C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe ./Build -- NOT OK Running Build test Can't test without successful make Running Build install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible regards Gabor
