Re: make.exe?

On 26.4.2013 19:23, Brian Manning wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Pennebaker
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Strawberry Perl is my go-to package for getting a sane development
>> environment in Windows. Just today, I was trying to install App::Ack on an
>> old Dell, and found Strawberry Perl very helpful in the process. Compiling
>> modules with C extensions like ack requires
>> make<https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/255>,
>> which doesn't work so well in Windows.
> Try using 'dmake' to install App::Ack.  IIRC it's already included
> with Strawberry.

Exactly, there is 'dmake' for installation like

C:\any_pkg_root_dir> perl Makefile.PL
...
C:\any_pkg_root_dir> dmake test
...
C:\any_pkg_root_dir> dmake install

On top of that there is also GNU make bundled with strawberry perl as 
'gmake' (it is intended for special purposes)

-- 
kmx