[DFW.pm] Trouble running a simple perl program
Tommy Butler
dfwpm at internetalias.net
Fri Jan 10 15:30:09 PST 2014
What's it like running on Windows 8? Too early to tell?
--Tommy Butler, who runs everything on Linux
On 01/10/2014 05:27 PM, rickazevedo2 at lycos.com wrote:
> I installed the 32 bit version of strawberry instead of the 64 bit
> version. Now I installed 64 bit, fixing the problem. Yeah!
>
> on Jan 10, 2014, *Tommy Butler* <dfwpm at internetalias.net> wrote:
>
> Don't run away too fast :-)
>
> Let us know what you find out and how your journey progresses. We
> care about helping you succeed. That's part of being a member of
> our community.
>
> --Tommy Butler
>
> On 01/10/2014 04:14 PM, rickazevedo2 at lycos.com
> <mailto:rickazevedo2 at lycos.com> wrote:
>> I think I'm using Strawberry... will look at perlmonks.org. thx
>> on Jan 10, 2014, *Tommy Butler* <dfwpm at internetalias.net>
>> <mailto:dfwpm at internetalias.net> 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.
>>
>> --Tommy Butler
>>
>> On 01/10/2014 02:05 PM, rickazevedo2 at lycos.com
>> <mailto: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>
>>> <mailto: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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