ok i deleted \perl and \.cpan and reinstalled perl, place nmake in /perl/bin and typed perl -CPAN -e shell, said no to the manual config
Code:
IO-stringy-2.109/README
Removing previously used \.cpan\build\IO-stringy-2.109
CPAN.pm: Going to build E/ER/ERYQ/IO-stringy-2.109.tar.gz
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for IO-stringy
IBM(R) Program Maintenance Utility for Windows(R)
Version 3.50.000 Feb 13 1996
Copyright (C) IBM Corporation 1988-1995
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1988-1991
All rights reserved.
@ C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command" -e mkpath blib\lib
NMAKE : fatal error U1081: '@' : program not found
Stop.
"C:\perl\nmake.exe" -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
cpan>
back to the original error...
i am gonna see if i can find a perl forum or something, will keep reply if i hit on anything...