Re: Stopping a Pointless C Compiler Warning

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http://community.activestate.com/node/7553

chris

On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:36 PM, John M. Gamble wrote:

> I don't know which upgrade brought this, but currently when I use Build.P=
L
> (and the resulting Build files) I get (in reverse video no less) the
> message:
>=20
> It looks like you don't have a C compiler on your PATH, so you will not b=
e
> able to compile C or XS extension modules.  You can install GCC from the
> MinGW package using the Perl Package Manager by running:
>=20
>    ppm install MinGW
>=20
> I've become somewhat numb to it, but it's a completely pointless and
> unhelpful message, since this machine I'm working on will never develop
> anything in C. I haven't been able to find anything in Module::Build
> documentation that tells me how to tell it that this is a pure Perl
> module. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
>=20
> I'm using ActiveState perl version 5.14.1, and Module::Build version 0.38=
00.
>=20
> Thanks,
>     -john
>=20

Chris Fields
Senior Research Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign