[pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej at anomaly.org
Wed Oct 1 18:04:18 PDT 2008
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:09:08 -0500
"Haufler, Wayne A" <Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:
> Bottomline Question First: What is "cl" in Unix?
cl was the name of the old Microsoft "compile/link" program. It served
as a front-end to the compiler and linker (like gcc under Linux).
> Thank you all for your responses and suggestions.
> Unfortunately, I don't believe Boeing would allow me to install
> Strawberry Perl,
> so am constrained to ActivePerl, which is pretty good, methinks.
>
> I did download and install NMake.exe from microsoft.
> I tried running "perl Makefile.pl" from a cygwin bash shell, but got:
> Perl.exe - Entry Point Not Found
> The procedure entry point__isnand could not be located in the dynamic
> link library cygwin1.dll.
>
> However, tried that in a DOS Command Prompt window and it seemed to
> work.
>
> I then tried running "nmake". The results are the same in both
> shells.
>
> nmake
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version
> 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights
> reserved.
>
> cp Shortcut.pm blib\lib\Win32\Shortcut.pm
> C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib
> -IC:\Perl\lib C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap
> C:\Perl\lib\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap Shortcut.xs >xstmp.c &&
> C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -IC:\Perl\lib -IC:\Perl\lib -MExtUtils::Command
> -e mv xstmp.c Shortcut.cpp
> cl -c -nologo -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -DWIN32
> -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
> -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG
> -DVERSION=\"0.07\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.07\" -IC:\Perl\lib\
> CORE Shortcut.cpp
> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077:
> 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
That definitely looks like it's trying to run the MS compiler.
> Even as an old Unix guru, I don't recognize 'cl'.
> Given the command line arguments, I'd guess it is a compiler,
> and given the last argument of "Shortcut.cpp" it must be a C++
> compiler, right?
>
> Oh, this NMake.exe was supposed to come with Visual Studio, which I
> don't have,
> and probably can't have on this machine. I'll check again to see if
> I can install it.
That might simplify things. It looks like the Makefile is expecting cl
to be available.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
G. Wade
> Thanks,
> -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> Wayne A. Haufler
> Senior Software Engineer (SE)
> In Space Shuttle Program (SSP)
> Backup Flight System (BFS)
> Displays & Controls Requirements Analyst
> Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston
> Voice: 281-226-8626 , Cubicle: 5475
> E-mail: wayne.a.haufler at boeing.com
> Boeing Toastmaster (Club 4908): VP Education
>
>
>
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Haufler, Wayne A
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:36 PM
> > To: houston at pm.org; dada at perl.it
> > Cc: Haufler, Wayne A; Wayne Haufler (E-mail 2)
> > Subject: Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC
> >
> >
> > I have been trying to write a short Perl script on a PC (ActivePerl)
> > that would replace duplicate copies of huge video files with
> > Shortcuts to the corresponding original video files. To do this, I
> > need and acquired the Win32::Shortcut module from CPAN.
> >
> > The Shortcut's README file claims "You can always find the latest
> > version of this package online at:
> > http://www.divinf.it/dada/perl/shortcut
> >
> > But that dada directory does not appear to exist.
> >
> > In Win32-Shortcut-0.07\docs\intro.html
> >
> > Installation Instructions
> > 1. Run the INSTALL.BAT program.
> > 2. Run the TEST.PL script to see if everything works
> >
> > Whereas, the only two files in the eg directory are: ln32.bat and
> > sample.pl.
> >
> > Anyway, somewhere I found build instructions involving make.
> > Shortcut does come with a Makefile and a Makefile.pl.
> > I understand Makefile.pl is used with ExtUtils:MakeMaker to generate
> > the Makefile.
> >
> > I'm familiar with make in the Unix world (years ago), but
> > can't seem to acquire any form of make program for the PC world.
> >
> > I do have Cygwin installed (though not the entire package),
> > but no version of make.exe or gmake.exe is found there.
> >
> > Must I reinstall the WHOLE Cygwin package? to get make.exe?
> >
> > Also am aware of minGW and MSYS and tried to install them for their
> > (supposed) version of make, but keep running into obstacles.
> >
> > I know, I should ask the Perl::Win32::users list (or similar).
> >
> >
> > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> > Wayne A. Haufler
> > Senior Software Engineer (SE)
> > In Space Shuttle Program (SSP)
> > Backup Flight System (BFS)
> > Displays & Controls Requirements Analyst
> > Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston
> > Voice: 281-226-8626 , Cubicle: 5475
> > E-mail: wayne.a.haufler at boeing.com
> > Boeing Toastmaster (Club 4908): VP Education
> >
> >
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