Hello,

I inherited a windows-based program written in perl and using GTK. I'm trying to figure out how to install / recreate this system on a new Windows XP install.

I have the program running but when I try to set the printers, it fails to see any printers and the perl window shows the error:

*** unhandled exception in callback:
*** Undefined subroutine &Win32::Printer::Enum::Printers called at Shi
+p_program/Printing.pm line 513.
*** ignoring at .\connect.pl line 17.

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I tried to install Win32::Printer from CPAN, Win32-Printer-0.9.1, but it wasn't finding 'make' or 'nmake' so I installed 'nmake' and now nmake gives a fatal error, package 'cl' not found. I tried installing MinGW and Visual Studio but got frustrated with this avenue because I kept getting the same error no matter what.(clearly I am not a windows guy!!)

So I tried just copying over the Printer folder from the existing computer, which has the Enum.pm in there, from/to 'C:/Perl/site/lib/Win32/Printer', but it still gives me the same undefined sub when i hit printer preferences.

I tried copying over the PATH environment variables but still no luck.

Any ideas what's going wrong, any suggestions? Do I need to get Win32-Printer to install properly? thank you very much in advance for any help!

In reply to need help setting up an existing perl program in windows by joetesta

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