Hi again, everyone... Another curly question, that seems to be causing a lot of grief, as near as I can tell...

Like a lot of folk, I'm having all sorts of troubles with getting Date::Manip to work with PDK 9.3.0 and ActiveState Perl 5.16.3 running on Windows 7.

Here's a simple Perl script that I've borrowed from elsewhere for some testing:- 

use Date::Manip;

BEGIN {
        $Date::Manip::Backend = 'DM5';
   }

my $version = DateManipVersion(1);
print $version, "\n";
Date_Init("TZ=EAST"); #dep

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Note that I've included the suggested 'backend spec' in the script.

Now, when I run this script with the Perl interpreter, everything works Ok (using both DM5 and DM6)... but if I run PerlApp.exe (from the PDK) to build a standalone .exe, the following error is shown when the resulting .exe is run:- 

ERROR LOADING MODULE: Date::Manip::DM5 at /<C:\test\test.exe>Date
/Manip.pm line 35.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 4.

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When the 'interpreted' version runs, the output is:- 

6.44 [australia/sydney]

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...which is what's expected.

Has anyone worked-out a way to get all this working (specifically under Windows 7)... or will I have to roll-back to Perl 5.8.9/PDK 6.0.2, which is what I've been using on WinXP..?

Thanks.

In reply to Problems with Date::Manip with ActiveState Perl/PDK by ozboomer

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