Hi all,
I'm having problems installing the vix-perl packages on Windows XP. The first thing i did was installing the ActivePerl-5.8.8.820-MSWin32-x86-274739.msi. Then I started the command prompt of VS2005 (also tried VS2003) and entered "perl Makefile.pl". The output was the following:
Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: C:\Program Files\Perl\bin\perl.exe perl.exe perl5.exe perl5.8.8.exe miniperl.exe, in these dirs: . C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages C:\Program Files\Perl\site\bin C:\Program Files\Perl\bin C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WBEM C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROS
OFT SQL SERVER\90\TOOLS\BINN\ C:\WINDOWS\MICROSOFT.NET\FRAMEWORK\V1.1.4322 C:\PR
OGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\GTK\2.0\BIN C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 8\COMMON7\IDE C:\Program Files\Varian\Sybase\OCS-12_5\bin C:\Program Files\Varian\
Sybase\OCS-12_5\dll C:\Program Files\Varian\Sybase\OCS-12_5\lib3p C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server Power Toys C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0 C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin C:\Program Files\Sandcastle\ProductionTools\ C:\Program Files\Perl\bin) Writing Makefile for VMware::VixBinding
I don't get it, no idea what happens here. I have tried different versions of perl but I always get that message.
Executing the makefile then results in:
NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Program'
Stop.
Executing a perl script results in:
Can't locate auto/VMware/VixBinding/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: blib/lib blib/auto C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib C:/Program Files/Perl/lib .) at C:/Program Files/Perl/lib/AutoLoader.pm line 160. at VMware/VixBinding.pm line 20
Can't locate loadable object for module VMware::VixBinding in @INC (@INC contains: blib/lib blib/auto C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib C:/Program Files/Perl/lib .) at VMware/Vix/API/API.pm line 13 Compilation failed in require at VMware/Vix/API/API.pm line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at VMware/Vix/API/API.pm line 13.
Compilation failed in require at VMWare/Vix/Simple.pm line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at VMWare/Vix/Simple.pm line 25.
Compilation failed in require at RunBuild.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at RunBuild.pl line 1.
What am I doing wrong? And why the heck do I have to compile that stuff myself? Isn't there a binary version available?
Why is it such a problem to install the API?? All I want is start a VM via script!
Thanks!