-hokie

There is plenty of space to fit those files in your post (update). Now, nothing looks out of the ordinary before the error, so finally I can get to it. The problem is the line

pptr+pdl->dimincs[pdl->ndims-1-plevel]* i * pdl_howbig(pdl->datatype)
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And pptr is of type void*, a nonstandard feature that gcc allows, but apparently equivalent to

((char*)pptr)+pdl->dimincs[pdl->ndims-1-plevel]* i * pdl_howbig(pdl->d
+atatype)
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. Make sure to edit pdlcore.c.PL (it might not be a bad idea to alert the PDL folks).

While you're at it, you might need to add `echo exit 0 >pdl` unless -e 'pdl'; before exit in pdl.pl (man what a mess).

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.

So I made the suggested edits to both pdlcore.c.PL and pdl.pl. And still no success. The make file looked the same but nmake failed on something different. The output is shown below (I will update he above post when I get a chance):
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I will also update the PDL people. Thanks for your help.
-hokie

Hi, is thi problem ever been resolved? I am very new to Perl and I am trying to install Spreadsheet module. I can't get over this problem.

However I do not have this pdlcore.c.PL file at all.. Here's the output of my perl commands

C:\Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59>nmake realclean

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

        C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_f --  
+*.a core  core.[0-9] core.[0-9][0-9]  ParseExcel.bso blib\arch\auto\S
+preadsheet\ParseExcel\extralibs.ld
.ts MYMETA.json  core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] MYMETA.yml  ParseExcel.x   
+perl.exe tmon.out  blib\arch\auto\Spreadsheet\ParseExcel\extralibs.al
+l *.o  pm_to_blib blibdirs.ts  core.
[0-9][0-9][0-9] *perl.core  core.*perl.*.? Makefile.aperl  ParseExcel.
+def perl  core.[0-9][0-9][0-9] mon.out  libParseExcel.def perlmain.c 
+ perl.exe so_locations  ParseExcel.e
        C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_rf -- 
+ dll.exp dll.base  blib
        C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e mv -- Mak
+efile Makefile.old > NUL
        C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_f --  
+Makefile.old Makefile
        C:\Dwimperl\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e rm_rf -- 
+ Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59

C:\Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59>perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

C:\Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59>nmake

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

to undefined at C:/Dwimperl/perl/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 1208
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
+ '0x2'
Stop.

C:\Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.59>
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