[Bioperl-l] BioPerl Installation

[Brian Osborne]

Lobvi,

You're trying a "unix-style" installation on Windows. This can be done but
the specific error arises because you probably don't have the make program
installed on your machine. If you look at the INSTALL.WIN file in the
bioperl package you'll see it describes an installation using ActiveState
and its PPM application. Alternatively, you can install Cygwin, also free,
on your computer and do the installation unix-style since Cygwin is a Unix
emulator. I've taken this approach because I'm comfortable with Unix and
have no patience with MS-DOS/Command Prompt.

If you want to continue along the same course I believe you have to install
nmake for Windows, then use nmake instead of make - I will be corrected if
I'm wrong, I've avoided this approach. Otherwise you'll need to decide
between ActiveState/PPM or Cygwin. Or double-boot, and so on. If you choose
Cygwin then de-install ActiveState, Cygwin supplies its own perl.

Brian O.



-----Original Message-----
From: bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org
[mailto:bioperl-l-bounces at portal.open-bio.org]On Behalf Of Lobvi Matamoros
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:02 PM
To: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
Subject: [Bioperl-l] BioPerl Installation

Hi to every body:

I am trying to install BioPerl (I have already installed ActivePerl 5.8.0
version with Win2000) everything goes fine downloading a zip file from
http://bio.perl.org/DIST/bioperl-1.2.2.zip. Unziping the file to a
directory C:\Perl\ BioPerl 1.2.2 and starting the installation process with
perl Makefile.pl. After that when I issued the commands make, make test or
make install I got the following message:

..make is not recognize as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

What is wrong?


Thanks in advance for your help.