I've been unable to get the Eclipse/EPIC/PadWalker combination to debug Perl code on my Windows box. I have a similar setup that works in Linux but for some reason Windows has been giving me fits.

Configuration details
Windows => XP Profession SP 3
Perl => Strawberry v5.12.3
Eclipse => Helios Service Release 2
Epic => 0.5.46
PadWalker => 1.9.2

My test code. 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use PadWalker;
PadWalker::bootstrap();
print eval { require PadWalker; PadWalker->VERSION(0.08)} . "\n";
$var = "example text";
print "The \$var contains \"$var\"\n";

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The code completes as expected with the output as shown below. 

1.92
The $var contains "example text"

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I placed the PadWalker routines in the source just to ensure that it was installed successfully.

When I start the debugging session the only value displayed in the variables window is "^RE_TRIE_MAXZBUF" with a value of 65536. When I pause the program at the second print statement I was expecting to see the contents $var. The only thing showing is the above mentioned variable.

I have run this same example code in my Linux environment with the results that I expected. The Eclipse/EPIC/PadWalker versions are the same between the two systems. The Perl version on Linux is v5.8.8 and the Linux is RedHat 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 if that matters.

I've done a couple of days of googling without really finding anything specific. I'm kind of at a loss and was hoping someone else has another perspective.

Thanks

In reply to Eclipse/EPIC/PadWalker Perl debugging on Windows platform. by Anonymous Monk

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