Older computer systems would usually come with one or more serial ports. Most new computers that you can buy in stores today do not come with any serial ports. Does your computer have any serial ports?

I vaguely remember having trouble installing Win32::SerialPort on a Windows system that does not have any serial ports, but I don't remember the details. The closest open issue that I could was Win32-SerialPort: Install fails when Com1 is not present. I'm wondering if you might be hitting this type of scenario.

In reply to Re: Multiple strawberry Perl distribution organization problems and the hunt for Win32::SerialPort installation that works by dasgar
in thread Multiple strawberry Perl distribution organization problems and the hunt for Win32::SerialPort installation that works by Perl_question

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