Re: Win32::Sam / SAMIE

"This application has failed to start because Perl56.dll was not found.

You've obviously installed a binary build that was intended to work with perl 5.6>. There's no way to make that work with 5.8 without building it yourself from source.

Even then, I think that it is probably so old that it will want IE v4 or v5 and won't work with anything newer.

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Re^2: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by jcdento (Novice) on Jun 16, 2008 at 20:22 UTC
I have tried running it with Perl 5.6 and that doesnt work either... how would I go about editing the source code to make it run off of perl58.dll? has anyone had to solve this problem before? Although I doubt I can make the script work without samie's javascript functions, would it be worthwhile to investigate Win32::IEAutomation? I have looked at ::OLE and it contains insufficient methods for clicking in forms, but I havent thoroughly investigated IEAutomation yet.	[reply]
Re^3: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2008 at 20:36 UTC
how would I go about editing the source code to make it run off of perl58.dll? Sorry, I have no idea. I did play with it breifly several years ago, but abandoned it back then because it was very flakey. I seriously doubt there is much mileage in trying to upgrade it at this point. Beyond I cannot help you much either as I haven't touched IE for many years other than that breif attempt to use Samie for a project which never went anywhere. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^4: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by jcdento (Novice) on Jun 16, 2008 at 20:41 UTC
Ok, thank you for your efforts. however, I think I now have a bigger problem: I am now trying Win32::IE::Mechanize, but when I run it, i receive the same error, perl56.dll not found. Should i uninstall 5.8 and samie and install 5.10? I am receiving: `Undefined subroutine &Win32::IE::Mechanize called at C:\test.pl line 7 +.` [download] Do you know what could be causing this?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 16, 2008 at 20:59 UTC
Re^5: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 17, 2008 at 00:57 UTC
Re^: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by Anonymous Monk on Jul 25, 2008 at 00:41 UTC
SAMIE works okay for me on Active Perl 5.8.8, but I do not know how to click on nested menus created by Javascript. Does anyone have a relevant experience with menus? Tim	[reply]
Re: Re^: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2008 at 17:17 UTC
Hi , if u look at Slingshot Tutorial http://samie.sourceforge.net/samiedoc/docindex.html u can view samie accessing to a javascript menu but however Slingshot is not free they hide the code . Where's the "sourceforge soul" ? for me samie is dead .	[reply]
Re^2: Win32::Sam / SAMIE by jgcai (Initiate) on Sep 26, 2008 at 13:40 UTC
I can see that the problem is with the Time::HiRes module installed with Samie, so ppm update Time::HiRes will suffice.	[reply]