Re: [mv] Learn Perl to Install Minimate

[Bill Spornitz <lumpylabs@mbnet.mb.ca>]

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Programs that are *robust* enough to be released on a larger scale are
often released as source code, and then are *compiled* by those machines
(that intend on running them) as applications. Compiling (to put it simply)
changes the code into a form that  specific machine languages can use. (At
my place, that's MacOS ;-> )

*make* is the command  (usually in a *nix environment) that says *please
compile this source code* into an application that your machine can use.
Usually, this is predicated with a *configure* command, which instructs the
software to prepare the source code for compilation.


Hope this helps  ;-)

b

At 1:35 PM -0000 1/28/00, Andrew Peutrill wrote:
>    I posted the message below yesterday and received  this reply.   "You
>need some kind of a "make" program. Active  Perl should you provide
>one." From Stefan Hornburg. Thank you.   It appears that my limited
>understanding of perl  has a bias towards CGI only and therefore i do not
>understand what to do with  the "make" program. Any advice welcome. If any
>one can advise where to learn  perl basics other than CGI I would be
>grateful.   Original Message:- ( Hi I am new to minimate and relatively
>new to  perl so I understand that the following problem may be a simple
>oversight.   I am running windows 95 with MS PWS,  MiniVend-3.14-4,
>MiniMate-3.14-0-3 and Active Perl 522.   When I run the MiniMate install I
>get the  following:-   C:\MiniMate-3.14.0.3>perl install  /mvend  
> MiniMate V3.14.0.3    Copyright 1998 by Michael J. Heins
><mikeh@minivend.com>
> Copyright  1999 by Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>    MiniMate is free
>under the terms of the  GNU General Public License.   Where is your
>MiniVend installed?  [/mvend]
>Writing Makefile for MiniMate
>Bad command or file name
>Bad  command or file name)   A MakeFile has been created in the MiniMate
>directory but goes no further.
> Thanks Andy P



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