failed to install on Windows

[Zane-XY]

Does this module support Windows?
I am using strawberry perl v5.18.2 on Windows 7, can't install it via cpan:

# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
t/simpleapp-diag.t ..... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests
t/simpleapp-dubious.t .. 0 planned, only 0 passed.
 Non-zero exit status: t/dubious.t
t/dubious.t:
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at t/dubious.t line 7.
t/simpleapp-dubious.t .. 1/1 #   Failed test at t/simpleapp-dubious.t line 23.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[0] = Does not exist
#     $expected->[0] = '0 planned, only 0 passed.
#      Non-zero exit status: t/dubious.t
#     '
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
t/simpleapp-dubious.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests
t/simpleapp-simple.t ... ALL PASSED

t/simpleapp-simple.t ... 1/1 #   Failed test at t/simpleapp-simple.t line 25.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[0] = Does not exist
#     $expected->[0] = 'ALL PASSED
#     '
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
t/simpleapp-simple.t ... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests

[gugod]

this test t/simpleapp-dubious.t is mean to catch the case when a .t file failed to run anything due to compilation error. autoprove should keep running an notify it as some sort of error. t/simpleapp-simple.t test the other extreme, that autoprove should be able catch when a .t test file finished with "ALL PASSED"

I am not sure what cause them to fail... but feel free to ignore the error, of course. But judging from your error here, I think there is a good chance that autoprove does not work on Win32 at all.

[gugod]

Furthermore I'm all OK to support windows, but I do not always have a Win32 machine equipped with me. Feel free to send PRs/patches and convince me to merge them. (and I'm usually very easy to convince :)

[jmaslak]

I can duplicate this issue w/ Strawberry Perl 5.22.0 on Win 10 on the current Git repo with the Perl executable patch. The problem, I believe, is that the child process running App::Prove isn't inheriting the library path from the parent process, so, because Test::Continuous is not yet installed in the system path at test time, and because the directory where App::Prove is running has changed, it can't find the Test::Continuous::Formatter module that it needs.

Let me take a look.

Here's the output of a prove -l -v t/simpleapp-simple.t (ignore the cygwin64 stuff - I'm running it from that directory, but am definitely running Strawberry Perl, not Cygwin):

C:\cygwin64\home\jmaslak\Test-Continuous>prove -lr t/simpleapp-simple.t
t/simpleapp-simple.t .. Can't load Test::Continuous::Formatter: Can't locate Test/Continuous/Formatter.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Test::Continuous::Formatter module) (@INC contains: C:/cygwin64/home/jmaslak/Test-Continuous/t/lib:C:/cygwin64/home/jmaslak/Test-Continuous/t/../lib:C:\cygwin64\home\jmaslak\Test-Continuous\lib C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib C:/Strawberry/perl/lib .) at (eval 11) line 2.
 at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/TAP/Harness/Env.pm line 118.
t/simpleapp-simple.t .. 1/1
#   Failed test at t/simpleapp-simple.t line 25.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[0] = Does not exist
#     $expected->[0] = 'ALL PASSED
#     '
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
t/simpleapp-simple.t .. Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/1 subtests

[jmaslak]

The cause is that Windows uses a semicolon, not a colon, to separate components in $ENV{PERL5LIB}. I am working through things to use File::Spec and $Config{path_sep}. I've noticed a few other things I'm going to try to fix up in another few commits before I'm fully ready to tackle this - I have a partial patch together and it is running on Strawberry 5.20 and passing tests, but it's not quite in a shippable state. Stay tuned.