Installing Class::Inspector Perl module

Question

I am a windows 7 (64 bit) user. I was trying to install Class::Inspector module in Perl. However it requred Nmake15.exe. I have tried to download the exe and when I run it, there is an pop up message stating that

The program or feature Nmake15.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows

Could anyone advice on this? Thanks. This is a pre-requisite module required by SOAP::Lite.

What kind of Perl are you using? – choroba Dec 20 '12 at 07:57 — choroba, Dec 20 '12 at 07:57
I am using ActivePerl 5.10.0 Build 1004 – Yuen Li Dec 20 '12 at 08:51 — Yuen Li, Dec 20 '12 at 08:51

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 11:11

nmake 1.5 is very old, and getting a modern version involves installing the massive Visual Studio suite. As an alternative, you can use dmake which works just as well.

In addition, your version of ActivePerl is quite out of date. I believe more recent versions now ship with a make program and will run much better on Windows.

Finally, Strawberry Perl is in many ways a better distribution of Perl on Windows. It comes with a complete Perl module build toolchain including dmake and a C compiler. You should be able to install most modules on CPAN using its preconfigured CPAN shell.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 10:17

Class::Inspector is a pure-Perl module. Therefore, you could easily install it by copying the contents of the lib/ directory into one of your @INC paths.

This does not solve your problem with installing modules in general, though. That's why you should install a 64 bit version of nmake. By installing the Windows SDK, the nmake utility will be available at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio...\VC\bin\amd64\nmake.exe" (microsoft.com).

Installing Class::Inspector Perl module

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