Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.00.8882 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-2000. All rights reserved. NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified Stop. installed Xapian from a package, you will also need to install the correspoding -dev or -devel package. If Xapian is installed but xapian-config isn't on your PATH you can tell Makefile.PL this by running it like so: perl Makefile.PL XAPIAN_CONFIG=/path/to/xapian-config