Perl extension installation - unable to run nmake

I am trying to install a module using cpan on XAMPP. I am running Windows 7.

Immediately after this prompt is given:

CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JE/JESSE/HTTP-Server-Simple-0.43.tar.gz

It gives the prompt that "The required nmake executable file is not found, and attempts to fetch it.

After this, a popup window appears stating the program "??\c:\xampp\perl\bin\Nmake15.exe can not run due to incompatibility with 64 bit versions of windows.

开发者_StackOverflow社区I downloaded VC++ and copied the make.exe from that install into my perl/bin to replace the original make.exe. This still didn't work. Any idea how I can get installations to work with CPAN?

XAMPP comes with a crippled Perl mostly due to the "Apache Friends" being clueless morons. I suggest installing Strawberry Perl additionally, then using that installation from your Perl programs. Module installation in Strawberry goes the usual straight way.

Had the same problem that the poster, using XAMPP too, and did the following to be able to install modules on windows 7 - 64 bits

Moreover, with this trick you don't have to change path to perl on your perl scripts in windows that were made for most linux servers, this is, keeping #!/usr/bin/perl and use them just from XAMPP locally in your windows box.

• Just as daxim said, get away from XAMPP included perl.
• Download ActivePerl from ActiveState (choose your 32 or 64 bit flavor).
• The package manager GUI is just great (make sure to select View -> All packages, to search..)
• Install the packages you need
• By default ActivePerl installs on C:\perl (or C:\Perl64)
• Use the tool 'reloc_perl' inside "bin" directory to relocate your perl installation to \usr... issuing the following command from "bin" folder: reloc_perl \usr
• Now you can just use #!/usr/bin/perl on your perl scripts using ActivePerl
• If you want to add modules later, you'll have to delete \usr and reloc again, since they get installed on the original directory (which is not deleted by default)

What @daxim said was true. Use Strawberry Perl 5.14 from http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html. Since a lot of modules were implemented up to that point, you can easily ppm without any needs to add repos.