I don't know the answer to your question, but...
You can download the PPM files seperately from activestate:
http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/5xx-builds-only/
You can then use PPM to install them, but I think that part's covered in the
readmes.
"Reg Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I'm tying to install the tk module on my NT4/perl 5.6.1 installation, as
> a pre-requesite to using ptkdb as a visual debugger. I can't use PPM as
> it can't get through our firewall, so I downloaded Tk800.023.tar.gz, and
> unpacked it.
>
> Then I ran "perl Makefile.pl", which created a makefile as expected. To
> make it, I have MSVC 6.0 professional edition installed so used nmake
> next. However, when I run "nmake" it gets so far and falls over
> complaining it can't find some standard headers files;
>
> nmake
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
>
> cd pTk && NMAKE DEFINE=""
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
>
> cl.exe -c -I.. -I../pTk/mTk/xlib -I. -Ibitmaps -I../pTk/mTk/xlib
> -nologo -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DN
> O_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
> -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O1 -MD -DNDEBUG -DVERSI
> ON=\"800.023\" -DXS_VERSION=\"800.023\" -IC:\Perl\lib\CORE
> ClientWin.c
> ClientWin.c
> ./pTk/mTk/xlib\X11/Xlib.h(52) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
> file: 'stddef.h': No such file or directory
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl.exe' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> I can find stddef.h in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\Include" and if I manually run the "cl.exe -c -I..
> -I../pTk/mTk/xlib -I. -Ibitmaps -I../pTk/mTk/xlib ...." line again with
> an extra -I pointing to this location it gets past ClientWin.c, but
> fails on the next target. Obviously I'd rather not have to do this for
> every target!
>
> I can't see anywhere particularly obvious to put the extra include path
> in either makefile.pl or makefile.
>
> My question is - where does Makefile.pl pick up include paths from when
> it generated the makefile that nmake uses, and can I add "C:\Program
> Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include" to a config file somewhere
> so it gets included in the makefile? Or is there anything in my
> environment I can set?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Reg Smith
>
>
>
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