[WM] Installation of WebMake on Windows

[jlm17]

Thanks for all your help. Defining $HOME (actually %HOME% in Windows) worked.

Robert Echlin wrote:
> 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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