Perl 5.8 mirror?
 

I have recently attempted to (re-)setup the emu and everything, following the instructions of the the most recent guide. However, the seemingly common error of zone.exe crashing due to not having perl58.dll popped up. While I did find an attachment in a post with only perl58.dll (doesn't work alone), all of the links to downloads.activestate.com throw 404 errors, preventing me from downloading one (?) of the versions of perl I need. I couldn't find any other mirrors for the file. I'm currently using the 5.10.1.1007 install from EQEmu Essentials.rar.

Does anyone have a mirror for obtaining the required other version of activeperl?

Ah, I wish I could edit this into the OP, silly edit time limits.

I found a download for 5.8.9.827 and it works! In case anyone has this problem and hasn't read the steps elsewhere, here it goes:

1. Purge your system of whatever activeperl you have installed.
2. Install the 5.8 version.
3. Either:
3. a. Rename your install folder. OR
3. b. Copy perl58.dll and perl5.8.9.exe out of perl\bin\ to somewhere safe, then delete the perl folder.
4. Install the 5.10 version.
5. Copy the perl58.dll and perl5.8.9.exe files that came out of the old perl\bin\ into your new perl\bin folder.
6. Copy perl510.lib in perl\lib\CORE\ and name it to perl514.lib.
7. Do that other stuff with the ppm command that the guide I linked to tells you to do.
8. Yay!

Thanks much for this post. I also am trying to get back into the scene. This helped me out well.