[Bioperl-l] NT installation guide - RFC

[Jurgen Pletinckx]

# That looks pretty much exactly like what I did.  I hadn't heard of PPM, so I
# downloaded all the modules one by one and followed the readme instructions
# for them.  I then reinstalled everything and used the Bundle.  The bundle
# was much nicer, but PPM looks like it would have been as easy.  

It _is_ very easy. Of course, you may have to wait for a given module
to be packaged for PPM. 

I was a bit wary of using the Bundle, since I thought there might be 
a chance it might muck with the already installed modules, especially 
for the XS modules.

# Any clue why nmake ends so poorly?

None . One of the error codes in nmake.err 
(1077	"'%s' : return code '0x%x'") corresponds to the full error message
"NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff'" 
but that's hardly informative. 

Unfortunately, this does not seem to be a general problem with 
either nmake or cmd.exe, as the other modules I installed using
nmake (XML::Node and libxml) had no problems whatsoever. Something
in the bioperl makefile, then. Any NT people out there?

-- 
Jurgen Pletinckx
Algonomics NV