That looks like a problem with ActiveState's archive. You'll have a better
chance of a useful answer if you ask on one of their mail lists for help.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Keogh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 08:20
Subject: DBI module with Windows 2000
> I'm trying to install the DBI module on Windows 2000. I have
> ActiveState's Active Perl installed (and it works fine), but I don't have
> cl.exe. I can't install anything which requires a licence (so I can't get
> cl.exe from Visual Studio).
>
> Has anyone tried to install DBI with this setup? Does anyone know
> where I can get a copy of cl.exe, or what I need to do to use a
> different c compiler (I think that's what cl.exe is). Or does anyone
> know what I can do with my config.pm file, etc., to make PPM work?
>
> At the moment these are the errors I get:
>
> C:\DBI>make
> Makefile:904: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> C:\DBI>nmake
> (... all works fine until ...)
> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> C:\DBI>ppm
> PPM interactive shell (2.1.5) - type 'help' for available commands.
> PPM> install dbi
> Install package 'dbi?' (y/N): y
> Installing package 'dbi'...
> Error installing package 'dbi': Read a PPD for 'dbi', but it is not
> intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
