On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Strawberry Perl is my go-to package for getting a sane development > environment in Windows. Just today, I was trying to install App::Ack on an > old Dell, and found Strawberry Perl very helpful in the process. Compiling > modules with C extensions like ack requires > make<https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/255>, > which doesn't work so well in Windows.
Try using 'dmake' to install App::Ack. IIRC it's already included with Strawberry. Thanks, Brian