I have been give the task of writting a perl script that interfaces with a dll. I looked high and low and found Win32::API. Which seems to slove my problems. I would happily take any other suggestions on how to interface a dll. I downloaded, nmake'd etc. the API module. I then moved the dll to the WINNT/system32 and to the perl/lib/auto/Win32/api directory. I then tried to run my simple script use Win32::API;   #pretty simple. I got an error stating that could not find the PerlCRT.dll. I then down loaded and placed the PerlCRT.dll in the WINNT/system32 directory and put the PerlCRT.lib in the perl/lib/auto/win32 directory. I ran the above script again. I didn't get an error on the command line I did how ever get a memory error in the lovely window pop-up box.

The instruction at "0x10002309" referenced memory at"0x08aed2a4". The memory could not be "read". Click on ok to terminate applicaion. Blah blah blah

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? OR a fail safe way of installing PerlCRT and Win32::API? Or a better way of interfacing a DLL.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Brett

Edit by tye

In reply to Problem with PerlCRT.dll + Win32::API by brettc

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