Hi all,
This may be something basic which I'm missing but.... whenever I try to use Win32, it crashes Perl. Other issues on Perlmonks and other sites deal with Win32 crashing if it is used for certain things. My problem is that it won't work at all:
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use Win32;

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causes Perl to crash. I've uninstalled and reinestalled ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 819 and still have the problem. The error that crashes it seems to be with the ole.dll and reading through the log it seems that a bunch of methods fail: gethostname,getmultibyte,getwidechar, setlastole etc etc all fail.
any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I'm at a dead end with it.
many thanks
Des

In reply to Win32 crashes perl by desmond22

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