Error getting while running the "nmake"

premak has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
I was trying to install Compress::Zlib. After creating the makefile, while doing nmake, it is throwing the following error

C:\.cpan\build\Compress-Zlib-1.41>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

Skip blib\lib\Compress\Zlib.pm (unchanged)
        cl -c  -I./zlib-src  -nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWI
+N32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DBUILT_BY_ACTIVESTATE -
+DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPL
+ICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1    -
+DVERSION=\"1.41\"  -DXS_VERSION=\"1.41\"  "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE"   Zlib
+.c 
    'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operabl
+e program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x1'Stop.
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Could anbody help me....
Thanks

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Re: Error getting while running the "nmake"
by Corion (Patriarch) on May 09, 2006 at 11:06 UTC

To compile modules that have a C (or "XS") component, you need a working C compiler that matches your Perl. If you have a matching C compiler (MSVC6 in your case I guess), you didn't set up the PATH environment variable correctly. If you don't have the C compiler installed on your system, there are various possibilities for Windows:

If you're not afraid to recompile your Perl executable and all additional modules, there also are Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules and Building Perl with the free MSVC tools.

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Re^2: Error getting while running the "nmake"

by Joost (Canon) on May 10, 2006 at 17:58 UTC

If you're not afraid to recompile your Perl executable and all additional modules, there also are Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules and Building Perl with the free MSVC tools.

I was under the impression that you should be able to compile XS modules using the free MSVC toolkit without recompiling the whole perl distribution, since the command line tools used in the free kit are the same as the ones in the full Visual Studio version.

I haven't tried that, though. The last time I compiled any XS modules for activestate perl on windows was years ago with the full Visual Studio kit.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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Re^3: Error getting while running the "nmake"

by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 10, 2006 at 19:01 UTC

Re: Building Perl with the free MSVC tools

Re^3: Free MSVC tools + Activestate to compile CPAN Modules

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: Error getting while running the "nmake"
by Joost (Canon) on May 09, 2006 at 11:06 UTC

If you don't have it installed, you should probably give the (free) visual C++ express edition a try.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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