[DFW.pm] Trouble running a simple perl program
Reini Urban
reini at cpanel.net
Fri Jan 10 12:38:03 PST 2014
On 01/10/2014 02:25 PM, Tommy Butler wrote:
> I'm curious: Is there a particular reason why you are using ActiveState
> Perl instead of Strawberry?
>
> In addition to this list I aways recommend that questions be asked on
> www.perlmonks.org as well. The site looks like it's straight out of the
> nineties, but it is actually tremendously useful. They have a few
> resident Perl-On-Windows gurus too.
The same would happen on linux or OSX also, if the shared librabry does
not match the perl.exe executable.
Rick:
you need to find an offending perl*.dll in your path which overrides the
correct perl*.dll for your perl.exe
there are some utilities to help you in this, but all these require
either a mingw, cygwin or a MSVC installation.
> On 01/10/2014 02:05 PM, rickazevedo2 at lycos.com wrote:
>> Sorry, but I have no idea. Is the Perl executable in XP compatibility
>> mode?
>>
>> on Jan 10, 2014, *John Fields* <wigthft at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well poo. Getting the version worked on Wednesday night.
>>
>> No, because you are telling what you have (win8) to treat the
>> program as if it was running on XP. Or to actually be backward
>> compatible for this one program. Because win8 doesn't look back.
>> Like a shark it has no neck.
>> (Futurama joke)
>>
>> Try right clicking on the Perl.exe executable, select properties,
>> compatibility tab, XP Service Pack 3 mode. Hmmmmmm.
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2014 1:00 PM, <rickazevedo2 at lycos.com
>> <mailto:rickazevedo2 at lycos.com>> wrote:
>>
>> perl -v gave me the same error message. Wouldn't XP
>> Compatibility mode be wrong for Windows 8?
>>
>> on Jan 10, 2014, *John Fields* <wigthft at gmail.com
>> <mailto:wigthft at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm. Just like Padre was doing at first.
>>
>> Let's recheck: run "Perl -v" and see if it still gives you
>> the version number and the paragraph of text.
>>
>> That should still work. If it doesn't then something is
>> different since wed night. May need to apply the XP
>> Compatibility mode setting to the Perl.exe file under
>> c:\strawberry since win8 makes life hard just because it
>> seems.
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2014 11:10 AM, <rickazevedo2 at lycos.com
>> <mailto:rickazevedo2 at lycos.com>> wrote:
>>
>> With the command line open, I type "perl helloworld.pl
>> <http://helloworld.pl>" (the name of the file) and hit
>> enter. It gives me the "0xc000007" error message,
>> refusing to execute the program. I looked up answers
>> online and a lot of them are "reboot the machine" "try
>> reinstalling" etc. I rebooted and it didn't fix
>> anything. A registry-fixer was recommended but I
>> decided to uninstall it after installing. It would be
>> nice to have some help. Thank you. Rick Azevedo
>>
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