So, I finally broke down and upgraded from Win98 to WinXP.

I'm running Perl 5.6.1 because there isn't a lot of support yet for Perl 5.8 via PPM.

I've got Tk v800.023 and Devel::ptkdb 1.1074.

I'm running Apache 2.0.43. I'm using a default configuration for this.

I have a CGI script that looks like this: 

#!perl -d:ptkdb

use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header();
print $q->start_html();
print $q->h1("Hello, World!");
print $q->end_html();
If I take away the -d option, it works fine, I get "Hello, World!" in my browser.

If I leave in the -d option, IE spins forever, Task Manager indicates that there is a perl.exe process running, but the debugger window never actually becomes visible. If I kill perl.exe, IE immediately returns a server error.

This used to work right out-of-the-box. I've used Apache/Perl/Tk/Devel::ptkdb on Win98 just like this and it worked fine.

So... since I'm new to WinXP, can anyone out there please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to do it correctly?

Thanks,
-Dave

In reply to Devel::ptkdb, CGI script, Apache, WinXP -- why won't it work? by dpmott

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