Some history (sorry...)

Complete newb Perl user but 40+ years of software development (so I guess that makes me stupid AND dangerous).

I 'inherited' a Perl project (which works) but had to install it on different PC (that didn't have Perl). So I installed Strawberry + Padre combo, and that works very well. I am able to run simple scripts on this system.

(Strawberry perl v5.10.1 (loaded today 9/3/2010)).

But now, when I run the previously working (and very complex) script, I fight it one line at a time.

So I finally got Text::CSV, and a bunch of Win32::GUIs loaded successfully (DropFiles, Constants,BitmapInline) but Win32::GUI::DIBitmap stubbornly refuses to load for some reason I cannot decipher.

I've tried 'force notest' and that gets me further but now the error message is:

dmake: Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'
dmake.EXE: Error code 255, while making 'subdirs-test'

I fixed an earlier problem by adding a 'bin' sub to my path but the dmake above is on the path.

One response I googled indicated that the latest version of ActivePerl failed but the previous version worked OK with this, so now I'm wondering (and hoping it's not true) that Strawberryperl is the culprit.

So... any ideas?

Thanks.

In reply to Win32::GUI::DIBitmap problem by djarv

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