Oliver, Your guess was correct--I did not h ave the nmake exe file and had no idea where to get it, so thank you very much for the link. It saved me a lot of time.
"Oliver Andrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message E16fKKX-00012S-00@fitheach">news:E16fKKX-00012S-00@fitheach... > Hi Thomas, > > > I am attempting to install a module on a Win2K machine using Active State > > Perl v5.6.0 build 615. > > > > I decompress the module and extract its contents to a new folder in > > \perl\site\lib. Then in the command prompt I 'cd' into that new > > directory and type 'perl makefile.pl' --everything goes fine, there are > > no errors and a makefile is produced. > > personally I would extract the archive in the perl lib path, but somewhere > else, cause nmake install we do the required magic to install the stuff. > > > Here is the problem: > > I type 'nmake' and I get: <'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or > > external command.> > > > > Note: I use 'nmake' because that is the result of "perl -V:make" > > Well, my guess is, you haven't installed nmake so far. THis can be > downloaded from MS website. > > http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe > > Install it and put the Path in your PATH variable. Then verything should > work. > > Best regards, > Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
