Hi,

I've been using activePerl build 522 for several years on Win98. I've just downloaded and installed build 805, and added WIN32::ASP.

if I type perl -v it confirms that I'm running 5.8.0

but my perlscript is failing with: 

Perl 5.006 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at C:/PERL/
+lib/vars.pm. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/PERL/lib/vars.pm
+ line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/PERL/site/lib/Win32/
+OLE/Variant.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/PERL/s
+ite/lib/WIN32/ASP.pm line 34. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted line 
+1.

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Is this because I didn't uninstall the previous version first? What do I need to do to get things working?

Any advice much appreciated. Andy

In reply to upgrading activeperl by theandygrant

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