For most file and directory handling Win32 APIs, there are two variants. Those with the A suffix (for ANSI character set) and those with a W suffix (for Wide character set). Eg. FindFirstFileA(...) & FindFirstFileW( ... ).

Perl is usually built to use the A suffix variants, and they have a built in limitation, on the length of paths, of 260 characters. The path in your error message is 262 characters.

Options:

  1. Try and build your own version of Perl having enable defined the macro USING_WIDE().

    I don't think anyone has tried this for a long time. I'm not sure that the implementation was very complete when it was working.

    A quick grep of the 5.10.0 sources suggests that all the support that did exist at 5.8.6 has been stripped out.

  2. Take the people that created those ridiculous paths out the back and shoot them.
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In reply to Re: Is there a way to catch an error within a module? by BrowserUk
in thread Is there a way to catch an error within a module? by romandas

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