[San-Diego-pm] Captcha

[Christopher Hahn]

Joel,
 
OK.  The webpage we first looked at was misleading.
 
This is a traditional tarball deliverable.
 
You need to uncompress and unpack the *.tar.gz 
 
When you do you will find the file "Makefile.PL" in the results.
 
Then you follow "the standard Perl procedure" as described in your email.
 
On windows, winzip was handle both gzip files and tar archives.
 
You will know you are on the right track when it pops up a dialog that
says something like "there is an archive in this compressed file, shall I
unpack 
it to a temp folder and open it?"  Say yes, and you will have a winzip
window 
with the eventual files visible (if you say no, then you will only see a
winzip 
window with "Authen-Captcha-1.023.tar" in it ....i.e. this is the only file
in
the gzip file.)
 
Just direct winzip to extract the files into some known directory, and then 
cd there in a dos window.  Then, assuming that nmake is in your path, the
instructions will work as desired. (swapping "nmake" for "make" of course)
 
This is something that will work.  (now that you actually have the thing ;0)
 
Post again if this was confusing. 
 
Chris

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From: san-diego-pm-bounces+chahn=peregrine.com at pm.org on behalf of Joel
Fentin
Sent: Tue 5/16/2006 11:05 PM
To: San Diego Perl Mongers
Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Captcha



It appears that copying Captcha.pm into my computer is not enough. 
Apparrently Captcha comes with a lot of files. 

Captcha.html says: 
The module can be installed using the standard Perl procedure: 

     perl Makefile.PL 
     make 
     make test 
     make install    # you need to be root 

Windows users without a working ``make'' can get nmake from: 

     ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe
<ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe>  

Here's what I did: 

+download Captcha (Authen-Captcha-1.023.tar.gz) 
+download nmake15.exe from microsoft 
+run nmake15.exe to unzip its contents 
+the unzipped content contains nmake.exe 
+shell to DOS 
+run nmake.exe Authen-Captcha-1.023.tar.gz 
+get following message: 
Authen-Captcha-1.023.tar.gz(1) : fatal error U1007: double quotation 
mark not allowed in name 
Stop. 

I don't have a clue where I am, what I'm doing, or what I should be 
doing. Microsoft has a file called running nmake. It doesn't say if it 
works with .gz nor does it have any examples. 


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