Strawberry and CPAN

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

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Re: Strawberry and CPAN by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 01:18 UTC
PerlMagick seems to have some really ugly custom Makefile.PL code. For Windows, the README says to use "perl Makefile.nt" and then "nmake install" -- which clearly assumes an ActiveState/MSVC/nmake setup. Moreover, I can't even replicate your error with my own Strawberry. Are you running 5.10.0 or 5.8.8 Alpha 2? -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jan 09, 2008 at 02:29 UTC
It's the 5.10.0 version. Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply]
Re^3: Strawberry and CPAN by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 12:45 UTC
I agree with Syphilis, below, that it would help to know other modules that this has happened on for comparision. Could you please post the generated Makefile? I'm curious to see if anything strange is in it. -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply]
Re: Strawberry and CPAN by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 09, 2008 at 06:15 UTC
Some modules have installed just fine, others have this error message. Probably better if you can name one of these "others" ... if you could nominate one that's more straightforward than Image::Magick, then it would increase the likelihood of finding a solution. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jan 09, 2008 at 21:53 UTC
Well for a start, I installed Bundle::CPAN and they all installed except for IO::Zlib, which had exactly the same error: `ERROR: Cannot copy 'Zlib.pm' to 'blib\lib\IO\Zlib.pm': No such file or directory [snip] dmake.EXE: Error code 130, while making 'pm_to_blib' [snip] Failed during this command: TOMHUGHES/IO-Zlib-1.09.tar.gz : make NO` [download] Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jan 09, 2008 at 22:01 UTC
Then I tried Perl::Critic which has an almost comically-long list of dependencies and it failed almost all of them: ADAMK/Test-Object-0.07.tar.gz : make NO ADAMK/Class-Inspector-1.18.tar.gz : make NO ADAMK/Test-ClassAPI-1.04.tar.gz : make NO DCONWAY/Hook-LexWrap-0.20.tar.gz : make NO ADAMK/Test-SubCalls-1.07.tar.gz : make NO ADAMK/Task-Weaken-1.02.tar.gz : make NO RDF/Clone-0.28.tar.gz : make NO ADAMK/PPI-1.201.tar.gz : make NO JJORE/B-Keywords-1.08.tar.gz : make NO DARREN/String-Format-1.14.tar.gz : make NO VPARSEVAL/List-MoreUtils-0.21.tar.gz : make NO GAAS/IO-String-1.08.tar.gz : make NO ROODE/Readonly-1.03.tar.gz : make NO [download] with the same error. Can't copy, dmake error 130, pm_to_blib, <whatever>.tar.gz make : no. Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Strawberry and CPAN by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 10, 2008 at 02:27 UTC
`ROODE/Readonly-1.03.tar.gz : make NO` What happens if you try to install just Readonly (by itself) using CPAN - does the same error persist ? Readonly-1.03 builds fine for me on Strawberry-5.10. However, I don't use CPAN.pm (which is probably where the problem lies). Since every module you build has to copy a pm to blib, it's especially odd that this problem affects only some modules. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jan 09, 2008 at 22:10 UTC
Makefile.PL from Perl::Magick: Read more... (6 kB) and the Makefile.nt version: Read more... (8 kB) Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Strawberry and CPAN by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2008 at 20:11 UTC
I can't speak for the other modules failing, but I myself have been struggling with Strawberry Perl + Image::Magick lately. I finally just gave up and set up a Linux virtual machine. The single biggest complication is that the Image Magick applications and library apparently have to be compiled from source, and the perl module is installed supplementally during this process. On a *nix system, this is a normal `configure`, `make`, `make install`. On win32, however... I even tried installing a full copy of MinGW and MSYS, and building it from within MSYS...still with no luck though. I wish I could offer more than just commiseration.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Strawberry and CPAN by ggvaidya (Pilgrim) on Feb 19, 2009 at 06:27 UTC
Fix: You could do all of the following, or - as syphilis points out below - run the `ppm` utility which is available with Strawberry Perl. `ppm install ImageMagick.ppd` works a treat. Thank you, syphilis! Lengthy, unnecessary, somewhat inaccurate suggestions continue below. A "quick-fix" which worked for me is to install PerlMagick using the ImageMagick installer (which fails, since Strawberry Perl doesn't have a `ppm` utility). But the PerlMagick files are stored in ImageMagick's folder, and you can copy them from `${ImageMagick's folder}/PerlMagick/blib` directly into `C:/Strawberry/perl/lib`). I guess CPAN will have problems if anything depends on I::M, but none of the modules I need do, so this works for me. Those paths are from memory, so please message me if I ought to correct any of them.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 19, 2009 at 08:03 UTC
...Strawberry Perl doesn't have a ppm utility The PPM utility that's available from CPAN now ships with Strawberry Perl - at least it's part of http://strawberryperl.com/download/strawberry-perl-5.10.0.4.zip. I've found it to be a useful addition to Strawberry Perl. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: Strawberry and CPAN by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2009 at 16:07 UTC
.. And the packages name is: Image-Magick. >ppm install Image-Magick works great.	[reply]
Re: Strawberry and CPAN by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Aug 01, 2008 at 19:30 UTC
The problem here is often ImageMagick not being installed. You have to install it first. Then you can install Image::Magick. The build system should handle this better. I just had this problem. D:\dbsync>cpanp install Image::Magick [MSG] No 'C:\Documents and Settings\BradKing\Application Data\.cpanplu +s\custom-s ources' dir, skipping custom sources Installing Image::Magick (6.004000) Running [C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe C:\strawberry\perl\bin\cpanp- +run-perl.b at C:\DOCUME~1\BradKing\APPLIC~1\CPANPL~1\510~1.0\build\PerlMagick-6.4 +0\Makefile .PL ]... Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lMagickCore Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lMagickWand Writing Makefile for Image::Magick [ERROR] MAKE failed: Bad file descriptor [ERROR] Unable to create a new distribution object for 'Image::Magick' + -- cannot continue *** Install log written to: C:\Documents and Settings\BradKing\Application Data\.cpanplus\instal +l-logs\Ima ge-Magick-6.004000-1217616167.log Error installing 'Image::Magick' Problem installing one or more modules [download] Evan Carroll I hack for the ladies. www.EvanCarroll.com	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Strawberry and CPAN by SavannahLion (Pilgrim) on Sep 30, 2009 at 06:16 UTC
Update: In a fit, I decided to focus on something that I can try to zero in on. `ppm install Image-Magick` which netted me `mkdir D:\: Permission denied; The device is not ready at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 333` I know I don't have a valid D:\ drive and I can find the offending PPM.pm file and line. Navigating there, I found the following at lines 332 and 333. `my $install_dir = "$options{'BUILDDIR'}/$current_package{'NAME'}-$ +$"; File::Path::rmtree($install_dir,0,0);` [download] A quick debug showed $option{'BUILDER'} was set to an impossible directory on the D:\ drive. A quick search turned up `$options{'BUILDDIR'} = $elem->{BUILDDIR};` near line 1766. Seeing as how it's 12:30AM and this is night #2 at this, I decided to just modify the variable right then and there. It's a kludge and probably won't hold up in production but a quick match to see if the drive letter exists and a Q&D substitution got me going. Whooohooo! Image::Magick installed without a hitch. I'll leave this comment here for archival purposes. I tried a lot of solutions out there, but none actually suggested going in and seeing what PPM.pm was actually doing. Since I got Image::Magick installed and working with the above method, I did not bother going any further with resolving any of the other problems with cpan or the alternate alternate ppm install method. I get the same issue. Windows XP SP3 Strawberry Perl 5.10.0.6 (Also tried it with the most recent ActivePerl as of this writing) Image Magick 6.5.6-5-Q16 Precompiled Windows Dynamic DLL. This is maddeningly frustrating since I had this functioning on a prior Perl install. The old install was so old, that that particular distribution of Perl no longer exists. So I switched to Strawberry. Using Cpan, I get the above error noted by Evan. If I attempt the `ppm install Image-Magick` I get the following error: `mkdir D:\: Permission denied; The device is not ready at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 333` (Note: D:\ is my DVD-ROM drive). So I tried `ppm install ImageMagick.ppd` and I get the following failure: `Can't locate object method "rvalidate" via package "PPM::XML::PPD::html" at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1687.` I could fall back to using the Linux box since it has a functioning Perl and Image::Magick install but I really don't want to dig through my closet to figure out where it is and attach a monitor/keyboard/USB drive to it. I'm tired of banging my head on this. What is it that I'm missing? How can I capture the output from cpan for analyzing? (tried piping but I get only partial output, not enough to analyze).	[reply] [d/l] [select]