Hi,

I just installed ActiveState Perl 5.10.1.1008 on two machines: One is a Windows XP Professional laptop for work, and the other is my home Windows 7 Professional machine. I am trying to set up Perl so I can keep several files and folders in sync between the two, and other admin tasks.

Both installs are pristine installs, followed by adding two modules using the GUI PPM: Win32::Hardlink and Win32::Symlink.

However, when trying to run any code, for example: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Hardlink;

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I get the following error (edited to remove paths specific to my machine): 
Can't locate Win32/Hardlink.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /path/to/perl/l
+ib .) at path/test.pl line 31.

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I have done some research and found I can add: 

use lib "/path/to/perl/site/lib";

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to my script, and then it works fine. While this fixes the problem, I do not want to have to hard-code the site lib into every script as the paths are different on both machines and may change in the future. How can I go about fixing this permanently? (I am curious as well, is this an issue with ActiveState's Perl build or something with Win32?)

TIA!

In reply to @INC site/lib problem on Windows 7 and XP (ActiveState Perl) by Anonymous Monk

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