[Bioperl-l] installing bioperl on Windows 2000 (help)

[Chris Dagdigian]

Hi Bill-

I've never used bioperl on the windows platform; the web pages that I 
put up on bioperl.org were written by others. I've taken the liberty of 
CC'ing this reply to the bioperl-l mailing list where hopefully some of 
our existing Windows users can help you get things sorted.

If you do manage to get the latest bioperl distro running under Windows 
2000 I'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions on how we can 
better update or change the existing web documentation so that other 
users don't have the same issues you have had.

Regards,
Chris


Bill Zhuang wrote:

>Hi chris, 
>
>I read some of your messages on the web about installing
>Bioperl and followed the instruction, but I failed on the
>task.
>I succeeded in installing ActivePerl-5.6, File-Temp,
>IO-String, IO-stringy, and XML-Writer. 
>The most difficult point is nmake. I ran perl Makefile.pl on
>libxml and perl said "looks good", but when I ran nmake, it
>said, "NMAKE: fatal error U1045: spawn failed : Invalid
>argument". I updated Windows 2000 and tried again with the
>same failure. I don't know why and suspected that nmake could
>not be run on Windows 2000. But I saw Douda's message that
>he/she succeeded with 2000.
>
>Do you have any idea what should be wrong?
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Bill Zhuang
>