PERL Modules - Re: Question about building modules on W2K

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Re: Question about building modules on W2K

Sisyphus

2004-09-28, 3:57 am

Sisyphus wrote:
> Brian McCauley wrote:
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> Oh yes - it's there (msvcr70.dll) in C:/WINNT/system32 and other places
> so I renamed each and every instance of it and here's what I found:
>
> 1. The perl that was built using VS 7 would not run. That Perl itself
> needs to be able to find msvcr70.dll.
>
> 2. ActiveState perl was unaffected, and the VS7-built binaries that I
> had copied into ActiveState perl still functioned.
>

In a subsequent test (using Win32::API instead of Win32) I found that
ActiveState perl *was* affected. ie, for the VS7-built binaries of
Win32::API to work with ActiveState perl, msvcr70.dll *had* to be found.

Cheers,
Rob

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