dmake error on portable Strawberry

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

So I'm trying to rebuild pp in Strawberry on my flash drive per this link.

But I'm trying to do it on a plug-in flash drive (G:) on a Win10 laptop which also has Perl in drive C:.

I get this result...

G:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>dmake Makefile
dmake:  Error: -- Configuration file `C:\Strawberry\c\bin\startup\star
+tup.mk' not found

G:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>
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So next I try it instead like so and get...

G:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>G:/Strawberry/c/bin/dmake 
+G:/Strawberry/cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.047-0/Makefile
dmake:  makefile:  line 1106:  Warning: -- Empty recipe for special or
+ meta target .NOTPARALLEL

G:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>

<p>The reason I'm needing to build PAR-Packer versus install it is so 
+as to have my own icon put into every exe it creates (as detailed in 
+the link). It had worked before, but then I was installing into regul
+ar Strawberry on the C: drive, whereas now I'm trying to do the same 
+on a flash drive instead. Before I had been doing on Win7 and this is
+ now Win10.</p>
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So next I try it on the C: drive like regular and get this...


C:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>perl MakeFile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Subroutine MY::postamble redefined at ./Makefile.PL line 225.
# using "objdump" recursively to find DLLs needed by par.exe
Generating a gmake-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

C:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>dmake Makefile
dmake:  Error: -- Configuration file `C:\Strawberry\c\bin\startup\star
+tup.mk' not found

C:\Strawberry\cpan\build\PAR-Packer-1.047-0>
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And that doesn't work either. Hmmm. A clue I would seem to be lacking.

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Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry by Haarg (Priest) on Sep 15, 2018 at 20:53 UTC
The output in your last attempt shows what the problem is. The Makefile being generated is meant to be used with gmake, not dmake. This is a change made in Strawberry Perl 5.26.	[reply]
Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry by afoken (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2018 at 21:10 UTC
Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry asks the right question: Which dmake are you running? Check with this one-liner: `C:\Users\alex>perl -E "say for grep -x,map qq[$_\\dmake.exe],split/;/, +$ENV{PATH}" C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe C:\Users\alex>` [download] The first line contains the dmake that will run. If you want to run dmake from your flash stick (G:), then you should not see dmake in `C:\strawberry` as first entry. From the dmake error message, it looks like you invoked the dmake in `C:\strawberry`. To use portable strawberry, you have to modify the environment. This is done by running `portableshell.bat`. See also the file `README.txt` in the top-level directory of the Strawberry-portable zip file. Relevant part: How to use Strawberry Perl Portable? Extract strawberry portable ZIP into e.g. `c:\myperl\` Note: choose a directory name without spaces and non us-ascii characters Launch `c:\myperl\portableshell.bat` - it should open a command prompt window In the command prompt window you can: run any perl script by launching `c:\> perl c:\path\to\script.pl` [download] install additional perl modules (libraries) from http://www.cpan.org/ by `c:\> cpan Module::Name` [download] run other tools included in strawberry like: perldoc, gcc, gmake ... If you want to use Strawberry Perl Portable not only from `portableshell.bat`, add `c:\myperl\perl\site\bin`, `c:\myperl\perl\bin`, and `c:\myperl\c\bin` to `PATH` variable Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: dmake error on portable Strawberry by swl (Parson) on Sep 15, 2018 at 22:25 UTC
An even shorter one-liner is: `where dmake` which on my Win10 system currently gives `C:\berrybrew\5.28.0_64_PDL\c\bin\dmake.exe C:\Strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe` [download] That does not change the fact that the root cause of the issue is that Strawberry perl uses gmake by default, as Haarg notes in 1222452.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 15, 2018 at 14:19 UTC
Configuration file `C:\Strawberry\c\bin\startup\startup.mk' not found dmake won't work if startup.mk cannot be found. Does C:\Strawberry\c\bin\startup\startup.mk exist ? If not, what happened to it ? Best if you could provide the output of `perl -V` Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re: dmake error on portable Strawberry by Anonymous Monk on Sep 15, 2018 at 20:19 UTC
Do you have perl on flash drive? Did you run portableshell.bat?	[reply]


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