We're trying to get a mod_perl script to work on Windows. The script works fine as mod_perl on Linux (Linux/Apache2/mod_perl), and also works fine on Windows when pulled out and run as a stand-alone Perl script -- but when running as Apache2/mod_perl on Windows 2008, parsing breaks with the following error: 
'error' => 'Can\'t call method "parse_string" on unblessed reference at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/Compile/Transport.pm line 77.
As you can see, we're using XML::Compile to manage the data. We've traced the calls, and the log files look essentially identical when run as stand-alone perl and mod_perl -- but the mod_perl version (on Windows) returns the above error and exits before decoding the XML.

Again, this script works fine as mod_perl on Linux, so there would appear to be some critical difference between Linux and Win 2008 versions of Apache/mod_perl -- or between certain of the respective packages thereof.

For what it's worth, we've tried both Strawberry and ActivePerl versions (both v. 5.12) -- same error with each.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

In reply to XML::Compile problem in Win-based mod_perl app by stuckey

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