(Victor, the info you pointed to looks useful, but does not apply in my case...)
kmx -- THANK YOU! Your sequence provided all the hint I needed :) :) On 13 Jun 2011 kmx said... >> Ideas? Help with how to diagnose? Any thoughts MUCH appreciated! > >Could you please send outputs of the following commands: > >1/ perl -V:myuname myuname='Win32 strawberryperl 5.12.3.0 #1 Sun May 15 09:44:53 2011 i386'; >4/ echo C_INCLUDE_PATH=%C_INCLUDE_PATH% C_INCLUDE_PATH=%C_INCLUDE_PATH% >Could you check which of the following files exist on your system? >YES - c:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\include\stdlib.h > NO - c:\strawberry\c\x86_64-w64-mingw32\include\stdlib.h > NO - c:\strawberry\c\include\stdlib.h I saved the best for last >2/ gcc -v ... C:\strawberry\c>gcc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release) HMMMmmm... looks a bit old?! >3/ echo PATH=%PATH% Long path... %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;%Commo nProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn;c:\apps\utils\sys internals;C:\apps\Utils\Admin\ULTRAE~1;c:\apps\Photo\Hugin\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit;C:\apps\Utils\File\DirDate;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;c:\apps\Local;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\sys;C:\Program Files (x86)\Toshiba\Bluetooth Toshiba Stack\sys\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intuit\QBPOSSDKRuntime;C:\apps\tech\FPC\2.4.2\bin\i386- Win32;C:\apps\tech\perl\c\bin;C:\apps\tech\perl\perl\site\bin;C:\apps\tech\perl\perl\bin; C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin THANK YOU!!! That was all the hint I needed. * Put strawberry path elements up front and suddenly gcc works * Searched my drive (because my old "which.exe" no longer works on x64 :( ) for gcc.exe -- found it in the FPC (Free Pascal) folder * Moved FPC to the end of the PATH ALL IS WELL. Hooray! :) :) Blessings, pete
