[pm-h] Help building Shortcut; Need make.exe for PC

Wed Oct 1 17:02:35 PDT 2008

You seem to be causing yourself a lot of pain here...

If 'The Man' won't let you use Strawberry Perl you've still got a couple of
options that should allow you to forgo the tedium of building all your
modules by hand with nmake.

I would suggest either 1.) using Cygwin entirely: with it's perl binary and
associated build tools (which would be an exact parallel to the standard
unix Perl build tools i.e. use the cpan shell to install and remove modules
with ported versions of make, linx, ftp, wget, scp, gzip, etc.), or else 2.)
use the official ActiveState module distribution tool 'PPM' (or the newer
'PPM2'): this makes precompiled Windows platform modules available which are
maintained by ActiveState and stored in their icy Canadian archives... I
think there's a graphical browser interface to this tool now... as I recall
even the command line version is absolutely brainless to use.

To install the necessary Cygwin utilities just run their installer and point
it to you existing installation... it will pick up what you've already got
installed and give you options about adding or removing packages through a
simple GUI (you'll probably need to hunt around through a few broad
catagories, but most things you need you can find under 'developer
tools')... this can take a while to install depending on what you select but
may afford the best impedance match if you consider yourself to have been a
unix 'guru' at one time.

Hope that helps!
Montgomery

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Haufler, Wayne A <Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com
> wrote:

> Bottomline Question First:  What is "cl" in Unix?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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