[TriLUG] fighting with Perl on Windoze

[Jeremy Portzer]

Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> I'm learning Perl on Windows is a different beast...
> 
> Does anyone with working knowledge of Perl on Windows want to help me
> install an MSDE module (yes, yes, I know)?  I've used CPAN to try to
> get such working, but I am getting dependency errors and when I try to
> install the modules on which DBIx::MSSQLReporter is dependent, I still
> get errors. You can see lots of the errors (DOS logs) at:
> 
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=693865
>  and
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700626
> 
> The most recent one is
> -----------------------------------
> cpan> install DBD::ADO
> Running install for module 'DBD::ADO'
> Running make for S/SG/SGOELDNER/DBD-ADO-2.96.tar.gz
>   Has already been unwrapped into directory C:\Perl\cpan\build\DBD-ADO-2.96-Cxyo
> uJ
>   'C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL' returned status 65280, won't make
> Running make test
>   Make had some problems, won't test
> Running make install
>   Make had some problems, won't install
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Why couldn't you just use MySQL and not MSDE Wasp barcode?  Why, oh, why?
> 

At first I thought this comment:  "Why couldn't you just use MySQL ... " 
was from the actual build script, which would be pretty funny :-)

Have you tried using Cygwin?  This is my solution to most open-source on 
Windows problems (I'm forced to use Windows myself at $JOB, but do 
everything I can in cygwin.)

--Jeremy