Trying to install MinGW and Tk for Perl on Windows 7

Question

So... I have been trying to get this working for several weeks now. I can install MinGW through the .exe, but no-matter what I do I can't seem to get make support or ppm install MinGW to work in such a way that my compilation of Tk-804.029 will correctly use the 'make' command.

(Installing a Perl Module:

1. perl MakeFile.PL - Works fine
2. make or dmake - I can't get MinGW to properly associate Make or DMake (Can't find the correct .exe in the MinGW/bin directory either... I've tried using the -32bit mingw32-make.exe but that brings up errors to do with the compiled header files.

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ppm install MinGW also doesn't work, seems to think it can't find the package. So I am at a loss. System is running Windows 7 on a x64 setup.

Colloquialism

With the ppm install approach, you may be behind a proxy. If that's the case you need to set the proxy first. How? See this SO answer. – Sober

Thanks for this. I don't think it's a proxy issue though since I can download Tk itself through PPM install, just not MinGW. (And if downloaded it doesnt install for the above reasons; the lack of a Windows 7 compatible Make tool that registers with PPM) – Colloquialism

Any reason why you don't use a prepared distribution, such as ActiveState's? – Polarity

Active Perl Tkx works fine, unfortunately I am trying to get a third party script running which uses the original Tcl::Tk modules, the code I am writing will be sent off to be used by someone else who only uses Tcl::Tk. Otherwise yes, I have some other code that runs fine on Tkx from ActiveState. – Colloquialism

I am affected by this issue too. Third-party script, Win 7 64 bit and need to install Tk and WinGW. Not easy... – Remittee

Answer 1

What perl are you using? You could try perl Makefile.PL MAKE=dmake

or

ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Tk.ppd 
ppm install dmake MinGW
ppm upgrade dmake MinGW

or download from http://ppm4.activestate.com/author/MINGW.html Or try http://strawberryperl.com/

Hautesavoie

Answer 2

I'd suggest using Strawberry Perl if possible (and for Perl on Windows in general), as it will give you a working dmake out of the box. I don't have Windows 7, but Tk installs fine from CPAN using Strawberry 5.10 on Windows XP.

Kepi