Perl not found

[Stephen Grant Brown]

Hi All,

Sorry for my confusing post.

I am attempting to compile gnucash under Windows XP.

>From Windows Explorer I deleted C:\Soft.

I downloaded msys-1.0.10.exe into Z:\GNUCash_Downloads ( NAS drive)

I installed msys-1.0.10 into C:\Soft\msys with no post install.

I downloaded wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar into Z:\GNUCash_Downloads

I installed QT 4,2,3

I started the MSYS command line shell and then exited.

I did a svn update of http://svn.gnucash.org/gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32 
into c:\Soft\msys\home\gnucash\packaging.

I started the MSYS command line shell

GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~/Packaging
$ less custom.sh
---->

GLOBAL_DIR=C:\\soft\\msys
DOWNLOAD_DIR=/Z/GNUCash_Downloads
AQBANKING_WITH_QT=yes
# set -x
QTDIR=/c/QT/4.2.3

GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~
$ cd Packaging

GNUCash at ELSHADAI ~/Packaging
$ install.sh

############################################################
###  Wget
############################################################
already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  MSYS DTK
############################################################
msys dtk already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  Unzip
############################################################
unzip already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  MinGW
############################################################
mingw already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  RegEx
############################################################
regex already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  Readline
############################################################
readline already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  ActivePerl (intltool)
############################################################
ActivePerl already installed.  skipping.

############################################################
###  Autotools
############################################################
Extracting autoconf-2.60.tar.bz2 ... done
Extracting automake-1.9.6.tar.bz2 ... done
building autoconf...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes
checking for expr... /bin/expr
checking for gm4... no
checking for gnum4... no
checking for m4... /bin/m4
checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes
checking for perl... no
configure: error: perl is not found

End of msys command shell output.

Can install.sh be modified to remove this error?

Can active perl be installed manually so that the install.sh script runs 
without errors?

If so, how?

Yours Sincerely Stephen Grant Brown.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Stephen Grant Brown" <sg_brown at mcmedia.com.au>
Cc: "GNUCash Devel" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Perl not found


> Hi,
>
> Quoting Stephen Grant Brown <sg_brown at mcmedia.com.au>:
>
> [snip]
>> configure: error: perl is not found
>> ....
>>
>> How do I install perl?
>
> What OS/Distro?
>
> Fedora:  yum install perl
> Ubuntu:  apt-get install perl
> OSX:     depends on whether you're running fink or macports
> Win32:   download ActivePERL and install it.
>
> -derek
>
> -- 
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>
>