[WM] Installation of WebMake on Windows

[Robert Echlin]

I had errors until I defined $HOME.
I am running Webmake on Windows 2K Server.
Of course the process running Webmake has to have permissions to write a 
new directory to wherever you point $HOME.
Robert

John Sequeira wrote:

> On unix systems... WebMake uses the ~/.webmake/ directory to set up a 
> cache.  In Windows,  this usually translates to  $HOME/.webmake where 
> $HOME is an environmental variable
> 
> On your system,  it's probably not finding a value for "HOME" (I'd have 
> to look in the code for '.webmake' to be sure)
> 
> Can you set this environmental variable before running the code?  try 
> HOME=C:\ or C:\TEMP\ or something like that.
> 
> Another option might be to try running it under cygwin ... then home 
> will be defined.
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com
> 
> JS
> 
> 
> jlm17 wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I have webmake installed, but now when I go to run it I get this 
>> error:
>>
>> mkdir //.webmake: No such file or directory at 
>> C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 325
>>
>> Oliver Strutynski wrote:
>>
>>>> 2) If using active state, which PPM repository are you using? I 
>>>> can't find
>>>> Text::EtText in the main active state repositories.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a link to an EtText ppm file at the bottom of
>>> http://webmake.taint.org/downloads.html
>>> The file offered there worked fine for me under ActivePerl 5.6 (not 
>>> sure it
>>> was really 5.6, but everything worked fine). I did not install the 
>>> modules,
>>> but instead downloaded the ppm files from the activestate repository,
>>> unzipped them and copied the required files into a local directory tree
>>> manually. Worked fine that way.
>>>
>>>
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