First off, I'm running ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 on a WinXP Home laptop,
Chris, any particular reason to stick with Perl 5.6.1?
If not, wipe out the Perl installation and install the latest MSI
package for Perl for Win32 from
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.8/
(currently ActivePerl-5.8.8.819-MSWin32-x86-267479.msi)
and my onboard CPAN facility (the whole "perl ?MCPAN" thing) does not
work.
Try installing a simple pure-perl module:
perl -MCPAN -e "install Tie::IxHash"
Then I tried to use Win32::GUI itself. I found no documentation for it
on my machine as a result of the installation -- but having encountered
undocumented freeware before, I assumed this was normal and that I would
just have to "bushwhack" -- i.e., figure out the usage by reading through
the code.
OMG! :-) Tried googling for "Win32::GUI" first?
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net
Still, in retrospect, bad Perl
usage shouldn't cause the _interpreter_ to crash...
That happened to me too:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dascalescu+perl+segfault+six-character
HTH,
Dan
