[WM] TIP: WebMake on Windows

[Robert Echlin]

I had errors until I defined $HOME.
Right-click on "My Computer".
Choose "Properties".
Choose "Advanced".
The rest depends on your version of Windows.
On some, I think the Environment variables are listed here.
On Win2K, click on "Environment variables".
Add "HOME" to the user variables. The value should be the path to your 
home directory, I use "c:/home" for data anyway, so it is a natural for me.

I am running Webmake on several Windows boxes.
Of course the process running Webmake has to have permissions to write a 
new directory to wherever you point $HOME.
Robert

Warren Post wrote:

> I recently installed WebMake on a client´s Windows box (the client chose
> the OS, not me) and encountered a few gotchas. For the sake of anyone
> else who might need to get WebMake running on that platform, here´s what
> I had to do once WebMake was properly installed:
> 
> 1. Make the following changes to Main.pm (usually installed to
> C:\Perl\site\lib\HTML\WebMake\Main.pm):
> 
> * Lines 320, 346, and 371: Delete ¨~/¨
> 
> 2.  Make the following changes to SiteCache.pm (usually installed to
> C:\Perl\site\lib\HTML\WebMake\SiteCache.pm):
> 
> * Lines 72 through 74, 77 through 80, and 83: Comment out these lines
> * Line 75: Delete all except ¨goto all_ok;¨
> 
> The above is an ugly hack, not a fix. With these changes WebMake treats
> the working directory as the home directory, and skips an error checking
> routine. But it got WebMake working quickly in a situation when I didn´t
> have the time to do it the right way. Perhaps someone will find this to
> be of use.
> 
> I used WebMake 2.3 for Windows from the WebMake site, ActivePerl
> 5.6.1.633 from ActiveState, and Windows 2000 Professional SP3. YMMV.


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