Re: Installing Modules on Wintel

[Barry Dancis <bdancis@comcast.net>]

Walt,

    I got on the Win32 perl list and someone pointed out to me that VCVARS32
needs to be run - I looked it up an it sets up a bunch of aliases among
other things that points to cl.exe. I'm on a win2000 machine and I don't
know why it is not run as part of the .net setup. I put a called to running
it in my autoexec.bat but that doesn't work. I had to create a shortcut that
runs the bat file and then runs CPAN when I open a dos window.

Barry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@pobox.com>
To: <phl@lists.pm.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Modules on Wintel


> You couldn't be.  pm files are Perl code; xs files are C code that
> must be compiled into object code (probably a DLL on Windows) to be
> used.
>
> I'm sending this back to the list in case someone else can help.
>
> Walt
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:09:22PM -0400, Barry Dancis wrote:
> > Interesting question. I don't know - maybe there is a command-line
compiler
> > with 98 and not 2000. How would I know if it is using the compiled
version
> > or just the pm file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@pobox.com>
> > To: "Barry Dancis" <bdancis@comcast.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: Installing Modules on Wintel
> >
> >
> > > I've never built xs modules on Windows, so I don't know how it's
> > > configured.  cl used to be the name of the Microsoft C command-line
> > > compiler.  I don't know if it's still part of Visual C, and I don't
> > > have access to a Windows box where it's installed to check.
> > >
> > > How are you building Time::Piece on those win98 boxes without a C
> > > compiler?
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:14:25PM -0400, Barry Dancis wrote:
> > > > Walt,
> > > >
> > > >     I have perl installed on two other Wintel machines (but 98, not
> > 2000)
> > > > where it seems to be working fine. I searched both machines for cl.*
and
> > > > found nothing.  If the compile is used, where is the output placed
> > > > (perl\bin?) and what is its extension (*.obj?, *.xs).  I found
Piece.xs
> > in
> > > > the .cpan tree but not in the perl tree.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Barry
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Walt Mankowski" <waltman@pobox.com>
> > > > To: <phl@lists.pm.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:16 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Installing Modules on Wintel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:05:10AM -0400, Barry Dancis wrote:
> > > > > > They don't. Could the error be caused by lack of a c compiler?
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh, you don't have a C compiler?  That's your problem then.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >
cl -c    -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE-DNO_STRICT
> > > > >
> > > >
> >
> -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS-DUSE_PERLIO
> > > > >
> > > >
> > RL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1    -DVERSION=\"1.08\"-DXS_VERSION
> > > > > > =\
> > > > > > "1.08\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   Piece.c
> > > > > > 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable
> > > > program
> > > > > > or batch file.
> > > > >
> > > > > "cl" is the name of the C compiler.  It's trying to compile
Piece.c.
> > > > >
> > > > > I suppose you could try installing the ppm for Time::Piece and
> > > > > continue on from there...
> > > > >
> > > > > Walt
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