XML/parser.pm

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

I'm setting up an MSVC build environment (for glibmm and other 
associated libraries) on a new, Windows 8 machine.  Previously I've set 
up similar build environments for Windows XP and Windows 7. When I come 
to build glibmm, MSVC gives me the following error in my pre-build step 
(my pre-build step deals with all the auto-generation etc):-

        Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC
                (@INC contains: 
F:\+GTK-SOURCES\gnu-windows\src\MB3Glibmm/tools/pm
                /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/msys
                /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
                /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/msys
                /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
                /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl

        etc, etc

"@INC" is presumably an environment variable and the paths listed must 
be paths that get searched to find a file called "'XML/Parser.pm'.  As 
you can see, they're mostly Linux style paths so they wouldn't be 
relevant on my Windows 8 machine.

I must admit, I have no recollection of needing to set this up for my 
WinXP and Win7 builds.  Furthermore, when I list their environment 
variables, there isn't one called "INC".  But it's quite possible that I 
did need to set something up and I've just forgotten.

So to test that theory, I went back to WinXP and temporarily renamed any 
file called "Parser.pm" (i.e. so that it wouldn't get found). As you can 
imagine, that gave me exactly the same build error - except that this 
time, the paths listed were Windows style paths and they included the 
path that contains 'XML/Parser.pm'.

I'm baffled.  Can anyone think what I might need to set up in order to 
get the correct search paths?

John