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From:
Thomas Whitney
Date:
February 25, 2002 06:26
Subject:
Re: Problem w/ Module Installation
Message ID:
20020225142532.64713.qmail@onion.perl.org
Oliver,

Your guess was correct--I did not h ave the nmake exe file and had no idea
where to get it, so thank you very much for the link.  It saved me a lot of
time.


"Oliver Andrich" <oliver@andrich.net> wrote in message
news:E16fKKX-00012S-00@fitheach...
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > I am attempting to install a module on a Win2K machine using Active
State
> > Perl v5.6.0 build 615.
> >
> > I decompress the module and extract its contents to a new folder in
> > \perl\site\lib.   Then in the command prompt I 'cd' into that new
> > directory and type 'perl makefile.pl' --everything goes fine, there are
> > no errors and a makefile is produced.
>
> personally I would extract the archive in the perl lib path, but somewhere
> else, cause nmake install we do the required magic to install the stuff.
>
> > Here is the problem:
> > I type 'nmake' and I get:  <'nmake' is  not recognized as an internal or
> > external command.>
> >
> > Note: I use  'nmake' because that is the result of "perl -V:make"
>
> Well, my guess is, you haven't installed nmake so far. THis can be
> downloaded from MS website.
>
>
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe
>
> Install it and put the Path in your PATH variable. Then verything should
> work.
>
> Best regards,
> Oliver







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