sybperl-l Archive

From: Hemantharaju T Subbanna <raju at berlioz dot nsc dot com>
Subject: Re: Sybperl makefile for NT contains errors
Date: Nov 12 1997 8:02PM

Victor,
	(probably harmless) is probably harming you.
Checking for library files and SYBASE environment might help

--raju

Cheng, Victor wrote:
> 
> I seems to have problems to create a makefile for installing Sybperl on
> my NT. Can somebody help please?
> 
> I installed Perl 5.004 from
> http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/win32/Gurusamy_Sarathy/perl5.004xx-bindis
> t, and VC++ v5.0.
> Then, I tried to compile sybperl 2.08.51 on a NT. I first ran "pl
> makefile.pl" to generate a makefile (attached at the end). It  generated
> the following seemingly harmless messages:
> 
> C:\Sybperl>perl makefile.pl
> Writing Makefile for Sybase::BCP
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'libcs.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'libct.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'libcomn.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'import32.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'cw32mti.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'odbc32.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'odbccp32.lib'
> Writing Makefile for Sybase::CTlib
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'ibcomn.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'libsybdb.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'import32.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'cw32mti.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'odbc32.lib'
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'odbccp32.lib'
> Writing Makefile for Sybase::DBlib
> Writing Makefile for Sybase
> 
> but when I ran "nmake" on the makefile, it was stopped by the following
> errors:.
> 
> C:\Sybperl>nmake makefile
> 
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.62.7022
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1997. All rights reserved.
> 
> makefile(695) : fatal error U1001: syntax error : illegal character ','
> in macro
> Stop.
> 
> The section in the makefile containing line 695 is shown below:
> 
> # --- MakeMaker pm_to_blib section:
> 
> pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)
>         @$(PERL) "-I$(INST_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(INST_LIB)" \
>         "-I$(PERL_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(PERL_LIB)" -MExtUtils::Install \
> line 695 =>  -e "pm_to_blib(qw[ $(mktmp,pmfiles.dat
> $(PM_TO_BLIB:s,\,\\,)\n) ],'$(INST_LIB)\auto')"
>         @$(TOUCH) $@
> 
> Any hint to fix this problem is appreciated,
> 
> Victor
> ========> Makefile <============
> 
> 
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                    Name: makefile
>     Part 1.2       Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                Encoding: quoted-printable