Hello Monks,

I recently has the pleasure of having my old computer upgraded for me to a Win7-64 bit. I put the 64-bit Strawberry Perl on that machine and tried to install the Win32::SerialPort module so that I could run one of my old scripts. However, the installation did not work, failing on a number of tests.

This leads me to my questions:

• Should I even be able to run a 32-bit module for serial port communication on a 64-bit machine with a 64-bit perl?
• If I used a 32-bit Strawberry Perl instead, would I be able to run the 32-bit module, even though I am on a 64-bit machine?
• Is there some other SerialPort module that I should be using instead? (I've tried to install Device::Serial, but that failed to even run because it tries to configure with a *NIX ./configure script)

Your wisdom is appreciated.

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