On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Jaswinder Rattanpal via RT wrote: > > I tried that but for some reason I am not able to. i am on Windows machine > and am using NMake utitlity for this. > > I get the following error > > Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 > Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved. > > syntax error at -e line 1, next char ) > Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line > Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code > '0xff'
You cannot use nmake.exe with MinGW, at least not with ActivePerl. You have to use dmake.exe for MinGW (and nmake.exe for VC). ExtUtils::MakeMaker automatically generates the Makefile in the correct syntax for each make utility, and they are unfortunately not compatible. Cheers, -Jan
