Fri Jun 04 11:31:51 2010: Request 58099 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by j...@activestate.com
Queue: PAR
Subject: RE: [rt.cpan.org #58099] PP Not running
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: jrattan...@gmail.com
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58099 >
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
