Disclaimer: Not a Perl language question, more a p5p-win32 question...

I've an "emergency" project that has been running under my home boxes (Mac OS 10.1, Red Hat 7.1 & 7.2, and a hodgepodgey mix of LinuxPPC and Yellow Dog Linux, all Perl 5.6.x) without trouble. Now, it needs to run under Win32 -- like, yesterday.

Problem is, I'm behind a nasty proxy-thing and can't download ANYTHING except through MSIE. So, I've managed to hack in an install of ActivePerl, but I can't use PPM to grab packages -- like Tk.pm DBI.pm

Just untarring the blah-win32.tar.gz file and dropping files in place worked fine for Tk, but DBI is throwing a Win32 pop-up dialog "Can't find PerlCRT.DLL." It's right, there isn't one. So, I download PerlCRT from CPAN, and drop the DLL in the first directory listed in the search path in the error dialog -- i.e. .../perl/lib/auto/DBI -- and now Perl throws a Dr Watson segfault whenever I "use DBI."

Anybody run into this sort of thing? It looks to me like a version conflict - this is ActiveState Build 630 on Win NT 4 with SP-6a and Post-SP-6a-rollup...

A panicked thanks to anyone who can help!

In reply to ActivePerl Problems by Anonymous Monk

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