Re^4: Using Win32::SerialPort on Win7-64bit under 64-bit Strawberry Perl

Here's what I have:

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for MSWin32-x
+86-multi-thread-64int
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I am a bit surprised that it says "64int" in the build description. I just checked in my downloads folder - I installed from http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.18.2.2/strawberry-perl-5.18.2.2-32bit.msi

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Re^5: Using Win32::SerialPort on Win7-64bit under 64-bit Strawberry Perl by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 03, 2014 at 00:33 UTC
I am a bit surprised that it says "64int" in the build description It's a 32-bit build of perl, but it does have 64-bit integers. (Advice provided earlier in this thread that such a perl is unavailable is wrong.) I suspect that it's perl's 64-bit integers that are creating your problem. If you go to http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html you'll see there's a without USE_64_BIT_INT portable edition that you can install anywhere you like. It will give you 32-bit integers - which will hopefully allow Win32::SerialPort to perform correctly, thereby proving that there's a bug in the 64-bit handling of Win32::SerialPort (which should be reported). Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^6: Using Win32::SerialPort on Win7-64bit under 64-bit Strawberry Perl by hollie (Novice) on Oct 20, 2014 at 11:18 UTC
Hello, just confirming that with the 32-bit version of Strawberry Perl without USE_64_BIT_INT portable version the Win32:SerialPort works fine. One issue I ran into was that the installer fails if you don't have a COM1 port on your system, but you can override this with `perl Makefile.PL TESTPORT=COMx` [download] when building the Win32::SerialPort module. Regards, Hollie.	[reply] [d/l]