Hello Do you have directory_where_git_is_installed\git\bin in your PATH? Run 'perl -V'. Which version of perl it is? It lists @INC. Does it has git directories in @INC?
2013/12/7 John Emmas <john...@tiscali.co.uk>: > Hi. I'm not sure if this is the correct place for getting help with > Strawberry Perl but it seems to be mentioned on the Strawberry Perl web site > so I'm guessing it might be. > > Earlier this year I installed Strawberry Perl on a Windows 7 machine which I > use for C++ programming (with MSVC). Things have worked pretty well up to > now. However, my development environment is moving to Windows 8 so I've > re-installed everything onto a new, Windows 8 computer. I've been very > careful to set everything up the same - same version of Strawberry Perl, > same version of MSVC, same versions of Python / M4 / Git and all my other > development tools. > > One of the libraries I need to build is called "glibmm". I'm building the > exact same MSVC project that I previously used with Windows 7 (literally the > same project because it's on a shared drive). When I try to build the > project I see this error message:- > > > Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC > (@INC contains: > F:\+GTK-SOURCES\gnu-windows\src\MB3Glibmm/tools/pm > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/msys > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl > > etc, etc > > I'm assuming that "@INC" refers to an environment variable and the paths > listed must be paths that get searched to find a file called > "'XML/Parser.pm'. As you can see, they're mostly Linux style paths so they > wouldn't be relevant on my Windows 8 machine. To check this, I went back to > my Win7 machine and temporarily renamed any file called "Parser.pm" (i.e. so > that it wouldn't get found). As you can imagine, that gave me exactly the > same build error - except that this time, the paths listed were Windows > style paths and they included the path that contains 'XML/Parser.pm' > > I then searched my Windows 8 system for any file that contains the strings > "site_perl", "INC" and "5.8.8". The only one I could find was:- > > C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CPANPLUS\Config.pm > > So my best guess is that this is some kind of Perl configuration error. > When I installed Strawberry Perl on my new Windows 8 box, should I have run > some kind of config utility so that it would learn the relevant paths for my > new machine? > > John -- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net
