Running under ActiveState on Windows

[azaz44]

I have the sourcecode of official SBS 7.5 and I used to run it under Strawberry Perl for development. It worked fine. But I had some problems which looked strange to me and decided to try running with ActiveState instead.

Trying perl slimserver.pl gives the following:

The following modules failed to load: DBD::mysql EV YAML::Syck Sub::Name

To run from source on Windows, please install ActivePerl 5.10.  ActivePerl 5.8.8 is no longer supported.
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/

Exiting..

I tested newest ActiveState Perl 5.12, got these problems. I tried to install all needed packages with ActiveState PPM or with cpan, tried removing packages included in the SBS source (CPAN dir). No luck.

Just downgraded to ActiveState Perl 5.8.9 - same issue. Trying to install again with CPAN, but I don't think I ever get it working. I got it to the point it only questions YAML::Syck and DBD::mysql but installing these doesn't help. DBD::mysql has some problems, and YAML::Syck installs fine, but it still complains.

What am I missing?



BTW.
Is this:

my $a=shift;
my $b=shift;

same as this:

my ($a, $b) = shift;

?

[andyg]

On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:11 AM, azaz44 wrote:
>
> What am I missing?

You didn't read the instructions: To run from source on Windows, please install ActivePerl 5.10.

[azaz44]

On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:11 AM, azaz44 wrote:
>
> What am I missing?

You didn't read the instructions: To run from source on Windows, please install ActivePerl 5.10.

Thanks Andy, it works now. I did read this instruction, but thought it's irrelevant as I was running 5.12...

How about the my $a = shift thing?

[andyg]

Is this:

my $a=shift;
my $b=shift;

same as this:

my ($a, $b) = shift;

?

No, you want either:

my ($a, $b) = (shift, shift);

or

my ($a, $b) = @_;

The shift version is slightly more efficient but @_ is more common.

[azaz44]

No, you want either:

my ($a, $b) = (shift, shift);

or

my ($a, $b) = @_;

The shift version is slightly more efficient but @_ is more common.

Thanks again, this explains me my issues.