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

[Bill Zhuang]

Douda, Jonathan and Chris,

Thank you very much for your help.
Douda's message excluded some posibilities for me. Jonathan
pointed to the environment variables setting. I think this
should be the correct direction to solve the problem. But I
don't understand "system path" and "local path". In my
system, there is only one "path". There was an "os2libpath"
but not "LIB". I added "LIB", but the result was the same.

Jonathan, Could you please tell me how to set "system path"
and "local path"?

Douda, Your system is more similar to mine (without VC
compiler), could you please copy these variables for me, just
like Jonathan did?

Thank you again.

Regards,

Bill
--- Jonathan Epstein <Jonathan_Epstein@nih.gov> wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> A groups.google.com search with "NMAKE: fatal error U1045:
> spawn failed invalid argument" will give you much of your
> answer.  They reference using Visual Studio's Vcvars32.bat
> to setup environment variables correctly.  Now I have no
> idea whether this will work with W2K ... I use W2K but
> didn't use this batch script.
> 
> Getting this kind of stuff to work is usually a question of
> setting the PATH, INCLUDE and LIB environment variables to
> appropriate values.  BioPerl compiles fine for me on W2K. 
> Here are the relevant settings for me.  Obviously there's
> lots of junk in my PATH that you don't need:
> 
> LIB
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\lib
> 
> INCLUDE
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\include
> 
> System PATH
>
C:\ActivePerl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
> Files\Common Files\Adaptec
> Shared\System;c:\matlab6p1\bin\win32;c:\Program
> Files\Python;c:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\PBV
> Kit\gnuserv;c:\users\Epstein\bin;c:\Program Files\Tcl\bin
> 
> Local PATH
> 
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
> Studio\VC98\bin
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> At 01:49 PM 12/13/2001 , Chris Dagdigian wrote:
> 
> >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
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> Jonathan Epstein                               
> Jonathan_Epstein@nih.gov
> Head, Unit on Biologic Computation             
> (301)402-4563
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