in reply to Dynaloader not loading LibXML

Welcome to the Monastery, domglennon!

Does the first answer here on SO help?

It states that something may still be missing from your PATH. Could you post your path (echo %PATH%), and check to see where any "libxml*" files may reside in your c:/strawberry directory structure?

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Re^2: Dynaloader not loading LibXML
by domglennon (Novice) on Apr 25, 2016 at 14:20 UTC

    hi Stevieb, thank you for the kind welcome! I should have said I'd seen that issue on SO and done everything recommended there. Here's my path (relevant folders only):

    C:\strawberry\perl\bin\;C:\Strawberry\c\bin;C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin;

    And I've added the system variable perl5lib, which has the value:

    C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib;C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/auto;C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib;C:/Strawberry/perl/lib; I also created an issue of my own at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36793878/cant-run-xmllibxml-on-strawberry-perl-invalid-path-in-dynaloader-pm# - as the advice given in the other issue didn't fix it.
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      And I've added the system variable perl5lib

      Why ? (I think this might be your problem).
      Try removing it - I can't see how it can possibly be doing anything useful.

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        I'll try removing it, but I only added it when I started encountering the error message, following the advice given on the SE issue.
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      And here's a listing of all files/folders containing LibXML under the Strawberry folder:

      Name                               Size Type                          
+         Modified  Attr   Location

LibXML                                  File Folder                   
+     Friday 17:36 -----   C:\Straw...\vendor\lib\auto\XML
libxml                                  File Folder                   
+     Friday 17:35 -----   C:\Strawberry\c\include
LibXML                                  File Folder                   
+     Friday 17:35 -----   C:\Strawberry\...\vendor\lib\XML
libxml2                                 File Folder                   
+     Friday 17:36 -----   C:\Strawberry\licenses
.packlist                       2.22 KB File                          
+     Friday 17:36 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
.packlist                       2.22 KB File                          
+     Friday 17:36 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
.packlist                       2.22 KB File                          
+     Friday 17:36 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
_INFO_                        109 bytes File                          
+ 26/01/2015 18:04 -a---   C:\Strawberry\licenses\libxml2
AUTHORS                       208 bytes File                          
+ 30/07/2009 17:24 -a---   C:\Strawberry\licenses\libxml2
COPYING                         1.25 KB File                          
+ 03/10/2014 11:00 -a---   C:\Strawberry\licenses\libxml2
LibXML.pm                       64.4 KB PM File                       
+ 27/02/2016 12:17 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\vendor\lib\XML
LibXML.pod                      14.7 KB POD File                      
+ 27/02/2016 12:18 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\vendor\lib\XML
libxml-2.0.pc                 305 bytes PC File                       
+ 26/01/2015 18:03 -a---   C:\Strawberry\c\lib\pkgconfig
LibXML.xs.dll                    342 KB Application extension         
+ 06/03/2016 23:30 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
LibXML.xs.dll                    342 KB Application extension         
+ 06/03/2016 23:30 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
LibXML.xs.dll                    342 KB Application extension         
+ 06/03/2016 23:30 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
LibXML.xs.dll                    342 KB Application extension         
+ 06/03/2016 23:30 -a---   C:\Strawberry\...\auto\XML\L...
libxml2.a                       1.02 MB A File                        
+ 26/01/2015 18:03 -a---   C:\Strawberry\c\lib
libxml2-2__.dll                 1.20 MB Application extension         
+ 26/01/2015 18:03 -a---   C:\Strawberry\c\bin

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