cannot file cl.exe

OK, I am trying to install libxml with cpan. When I build make is failing since it cannot find cl.exe

Is this a MS shipped product ? Can I edit the makefiles and use gcc ? I have cygwin installed.

I have win2K installed.

TIA

Andy

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Adam Stoller

OK, I am trying to install libxml with cpan. When I build make is failing since it cannot find cl.exe

Is this a MS shipped product ? Can I edit the makefiles and use gcc ? I have cygwin installed.

I have win2K installed.

TIA

Andy

You probably need to make sure that Cygwin is on the System PATH and you probably need to re-make the cpan config file (I think at the cpan prompt it's o conf - but I'm not sure) and verify that it picks up the Cygwin utilities for building packages -- either that, or load the MSSDK on your PC and use the MS tools (of which I believe one is 'cl')

Migrateduser

I assume the SDK Adam is referring to is
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en

cl.exe is the Microsoft Visual C++ command line compiler. I had always thought you had to install Visual Studio to get it, and the description of the SDK seems to confirm that. If you download it and it does include the command line compiler, please let us know.

If that doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll see if I can't talk one of my co-workers who has Visual Studio and TS installed on a laptop into building it for you.

nipper

I have cl.exe in my path.

I try to build the pm (iwperl Makefile.pl) and it fails on this.

C:\.cpan\build\IO-Tty-1.02>iwperl makefile.pl
Now let's see what we can find out about your system
(logfiles of failing tests are available in the conf/ dir)...

ERROR: cannot run the configured compiler 'cl'
(see conf/compilerok.log). Please fix this by adjusting
perls Config.pm, creating a symlink to the right location
or maybe by just adding it to your PATH. You could also build
perl yourself.

C:\.cpan\build\IO-Tty-1.02>cl
Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.3077 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1984-2002. All rights reserved.

usage: cl [ option... ] filename... [ /link linkoption... ]

It is failing on the loading of a library:
compilerok.c
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'MSVCRT.lib'

I have this file on my system, I just do not know how is looking for it.

Tips/Pointers/FTFMs appreciated.

Andy

JonathonG

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'MSVCRT.lib'

I have this file on my system, I just do not know how is looking for it.

Tips/Pointers/FTFMs appreciated.

Andy

IIRC, It looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the library. Make sure the diretory containing MSVCRT.lib is in that path.

JonathonG

IIRC, It looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the library. Make sure the diretory containing MSVCRT.lib is in that path.

Ok, according to this site, I don't RC:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_core_..lib_files_as_linker_input.asp

If a path is specified with the library name, LINK looks for the library in that directory. If no path is specified, LINK looks first in the directory that LINK is running from, and then in any directories specified in the LIB environment variable.

nipper

Not LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but LIB

Now I am closer

include issues next

JonathonG

For includes, you want the INCLUDE env. variable

nipper

Now it is failing on unistd.h

I do not have that in my VSS install. and the cygwin one breaks cl

Any ideas ?

JonathonG

Now it is failing on unistd.h

I do not have that in my VSS install. and the cygwin one breaks cl

Any ideas ?

Not really. MSDN says unistd.h is a Unix header file:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/UCMGch09.asp

So, I'm guessing something with your setup is mixed up? It's trying to pull in Unix include files in a Windows build?

BTW, msdn is a good source for figuring ms compiler stuff out: http://msdn.microsoft.com

nipper

I may bag this. I have it running on XP with active perl. I would prefer it on my TS install, but that is getting to be a pain.

I used ppm with active perl, but it appears that ppm for the current iwperl is not as up-to-date.

ANdy