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

[Todd Rinaldo]

Wayne, Back to your original question, once you get SP installed,
Win32::Shortcut comes with SP since I think it's part of
Bundle::Win32. But to get the upgraded copy of the module (If one
exists) all you will have to do is the following to install
Win32::Shortcut

1. run cpan.bat
2. From the command line, type: install Win32::Shortcut
3. It will either download, test, install or tell you that you already
have the latests, in which case you're ready to write code.

The silly way the author seems to be implying may work, but this one
will for sure once you get Strawberry perl in. I haven't dabbled with
shortcuts in a long while, but my memory is they're sufficiently
complicated, that you don't want to re-do this work.

Todd.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Haufler, Wayne A
<Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
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