Installing Perl and PDL

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I am currently trying - unsuccessfully to install perl PDL as I would like to automate some of my data analysis and graphics generation.

Unfortunately I seem unable to even install the necessary modules without issue, let alone create a small script to deal with my data files.

I have some rudementary experience with Perl but Nothing fancy and am using Windows 10 x64.

Initially I went for the x64 strawberry perl v5.24 installation, followed by ppm installations of Astro::FITS::Header, Convert::UU, OpenGL and PDL - as instructed here http://pdl.perl.org/?page=install. However, there were issues with the installation of Inline::C and after trying the example listed on page 5 of the PDL_Book_Latest http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdl/files/PDL/2.4.10/PDL-Book-20120205.pdf/download there wasn't any image appearing, nor image file in any location I could think to search. Back to Google and still no luck finding any information on the source of this issue so I decided to go back to square one and use an older version in the hopes that it would be more well documented.

So, uninstallation of strawberry perl through Windows installed programs dialog, deletion of strawberry folder and registry entries containing "strawberry". Then a new installation of perl, with the Padre IDE, v5.14 - maybe some debugging fonctionality will help pinpoint the errors. Started installing the same modules (Astro::FITS::Header, Convert::UU, OpenGL, PGPLOT). Astro and Convert worked fine, but the OpenGL started throwing errors about ExtUtils::F77 which I am apparently missing after a few more hours searching. I go to install this module and it keeps giving errors about 'gfortan' being an unknown command... It was my understanding that the idea of PDL was to avoid fortran and C, and I have found next to no information about this installation problem so far.

So i decided to try an alternative approach. I installed the ppm module from cpan and repeated the initial installation process through the ppm command. This time i get:

"Unknown element 'PROVIDE' found inside SOFTPKG. at C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1462."

So my question is as follows:

Am I missing some critical step in the installation process? Is my system just handing this really badly, and if so is there any sort of possible work around? Is the fact that I tried two different versions liable to create path issues that could be at the root of this problem?

Could anyone provide an alternative and preferably not too complex route to install PDL with a given perl installation on Windows 10?

EDIT 1:

Here is the code for the error I got trying to install Inline::C, an apparent pre-requisite for PDL

code deleted to make space for updates...

EDIT 3:

I reinstalled GnuWin32 in the directory specified by PATH, rather that changing PATH, and the tried the installation again. Inline::C gave the same 'diff' and 'rm' errors. So i ran "cpanm --notest 'package'" to install Inline::C and then PDL, both said they were successful. However, even using '--notest' cpanm could not install OpenGL and PGPLOT.

The final objectif is to be able to produce graphics using the fonctions from PGPLOT: for example

# use PDL;
# use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT;
# imag(sin(rvals(200,200)+1));

yet this doesn't work of course if PGPLOT can't install.

EDIT 4:

Tried the fix found by @Dr.Avalange at sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/p/pogl/bugs/26/ and noticed that I seem to have multiple copies of this file.

Here

Is this normal...?

EDIT 5: So i uninstalled perl, deleted any lingering files I could find in %APPDATA%, %USERPROFILE% and C:/DWIM, and then ran ccleaner just in case I missed anything.

I then downloaded Strawberry perl 5.24.1 x64 for Windows and installed it.

After this, I ran 'cpanm Astro::FITS::Header', cpanm 'Convert-UU' and 'cpanm OpenGL' as per http://pdl.perl.org/?page=install. This all worked fine. Then I ran 'cpanm PDL' which installed Inline, Pegex, Win32::Mutex and Module::Compile dependencies. However, if had the same error with Inline::C that you mentioned previously.

I already had GetGnuWin32 installed before so not sure why this isn't working. The Windows 'Path' environment (not PATH - this doesn't exist according to the advaced system dialogue) is noted as

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps; In this directory I have the folder GetGnuWin32 which should have installed all the packages from the link you provided, unless there is a supplementary step that I missed to install this correctly? So I redownloaded the DiffUtils setup and ran that, installing to \programfiles(x86) (default option). I then reran 'cpanm PDL'.

I still get the same 'diff' error message. So is DiffUtils, not installing properly? (I did close and re-open the commandline between tries and after the installation)

EDIT 6:

So after installing PDL and PGPLOT with --notest I tried to run the following test and it failed. See below

C:\Windows\system32>perldl
perlDL shell v1.357
 PDL comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see the file
 'COPYING' in the PDL distribution. This is free software and you
 are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions, see
 the same file for details.
ReadLines, NiceSlice, MultiLines  enabled
Reading PDL/default.pdl...
Found docs database C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PDL/pdldoc.db
Type 'help' for online help
Type 'demo' for online demos
Loaded PDL v2.017 (supports bad values)

Note: AutoLoader not enabled ('use PDL::AutoLoader' recommended)

                                                                                                                        pdl> use PDL::Graphics//PLplot
Unknown regexp modifier "/P" at (eval 62) line 4, at end of line
Unknown regexp modifier "/L" at (eval 62) line 4, at end of line
Unknown regexp modifier "/t" at (eval 62) line 4, at end of line
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at (eval 62) line 5,  line 207.

                                                                                                                        pdl> use PDL::Graphics::PLplot
Can't locate PDL/Graphics/PLplot.pm in @INC (you may need to install the PDL::Graphics::PLplot module) (@INC contains: C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x64-multi-thread C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/lib .) at (eval 72) line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted

                                                                                                                        pdl> use PDL

                                                                                                                        pdl> use lib 'C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PDL/Graphics'

                                                                                                                        pdl> use PGPLOT

                                                                                                                        pdl> use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT

                                                                                                                        pdl> imag(sin(rvals(200,200)+1))
Undefined subroutine &PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf called at C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PDL/Graphics/PGPLOT.pm line 408,  line 90.

                                                                                                                        pdl> exit

C:\Windows\system32>cpanm PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf
! Finding PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf on cpanmetadb failed.
! Finding PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf () on mirror http://www.cpan.org failed.
! Couldn't find module or a distribution PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf

C:\Windows\system32>cpan PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT::pgqinf
Loading internal null logger. Install Log::Log4perl for logging messages
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.211)
Database was generated on Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:49:14 GMT


C:\Windows\system32>

There was already a directory problem but I managed to point it in th right direction I had thought. Also tried installing the PLplot 'cpanm' said the installation was successful but there is no .pm file, only a .pd in another directory and so the use PDL::Graphics::PLplot fails as there is no .pm file to find.

EDIT: 7 So retrying ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/PGPLOT.ppd seemed to work this time as the links int he explanation you provided are no longer in use http://www.kalinabears.com.au/w32perl/pgplot-5.2.2-mingw32.tar.bz2 http://jrfonseca.home.dyndns.org/projects/gnu-win32/software/ported/patches/pgplot-5.2.2-mingw32.diff.gz And while this seemed to work, there are no traces of the files that were listed as necessary for the installation, unless they were just for this specific method?

pgplot/bin/cpgplot.dll
pgplot/bin/pgplot.dll
pgplot/bin/grfont.dat
pgplot/include/cpgplot.h
pgplot/lib/cpgplot.a
pgplot/lib/pgplot.a

finally, trying the example again gives the following; no errors, but no image either...

Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.14393]
(c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.

C:\Windows\system32>perldl
perlDL shell v1.357
 PDL comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, see the file
 'COPYING' in the PDL distribution. This is free software and you
 are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions, see
 the same file for details.
ReadLines, NiceSlice, MultiLines  enabled
Reading PDL/default.pdl...
Found docs database C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PDL/pdldoc.db
Type 'help' for online help
Type 'demo' for online demos
Loaded PDL v2.017 (supports bad values)

Note: AutoLoader not enabled ('use PDL::AutoLoader' recommended)

pdl> use PDL

pdl> use PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT

pdl> imag(rvals(200,200)+1)
 %PGPLOT, Unable to read font file: grfont.dat
 %PGPLOT, Use environment variable PGPLOT_FONT to specify the location of the PGPLOT grfont.dat file.
Displaying 200 x 200 image from 1 to 142.421356201172, using 240 colors (16-255)...

pdl> $ENV{PGPLOT_FONT} = "C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/PGPLOT/pgplot_supp"

pdl> imag(rvals(200,200)+1)
Displaying 200 x 200 image from 1 to 142.421356201172, using 240 colors (16-255)...

pdl>

Installing Perl and PDL

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