WizardOfPerl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've recently moved onto a Windows 10 PC and have just installed DWIM Perl on it.
It installed correctly, but whenever I run Padre (the IDE) from the start menu it returns the following error

Major Startup Error: 'syntax error at (eval 1907) line 23, next token +??? (Might be a runaway multi-line PP string starting on line 13) Unmatched right curly bracket (eval 1907) line 26, at end of line syntax error at (eval 1907) line 67, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 78, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 84, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 92, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 98, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 110, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 116, near";}" syntax error at (eval 1907) line 137, near";}" (eval 1907) has too many errors. BEGIN failed -- compilation aborted at C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre +/DB.pm line 36. Compilation failed in require at C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre.pm li +ne 33 BEGIN failed -- compilation aborted at C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre +.pm line 33. Compilation failed in require '

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Re: Padre Installation Error (Major)
by 1nickt (Canon) on Jun 21, 2017 at 12:00 UTC

    Hi, did you edit C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre/DB.pm or any other file, or are you providing a start-up script to the IDE? If so, show what you wrote: the error reported is pretty clear about the syntax error causing your crash ...


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Re: Padre Installation Error (Major)
by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 21, 2017 at 11:40 UTC

    How did you attempt to install Padre? Please let us know the exact method/link/download etc. That way, we can try to reproduce the issue.

Re: Padre Installation Error (Major)
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2017 at 12:57 UTC
    Better yet just show us lines around #36 in C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre/DB.pm

      Better yet just show us lines around #36 in C:/Dwimperl/perl/site/lib/Padre/DB.pm

      No. You're not going to debug some old version of padre running on some old version of perl by proxy thats wasted effort on old and probably known bug

Re: Padre Installation Error (Major)
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2017 at 18:44 UTC

    Hi,

    What do you get if you run

    perl -e " use Padre qw/ :everything /; "

    Also what do you get if you run

    perl -V