VS2010 + Perl 5.14 = Zone.exe crash

[Davood]

Hello,

here is a problem, which I will kind of step through, its a little messy: (I can provide more detailed dumps if need-be, im hoping this is a PEBKAC issue)

I have scoured the forums as well as google. I am too dumb to figure it out myself - or I haven't found the answer yet.

Here is the problem:
I installed vs2010
downloaded mysql 5.1 zip archive (just for the includes for vs)
perl 5.14
zlib

I checked out the code with visualSVN within vs2010 - great
setup the directories to point to mysql/zlib/perl - great

compile as 32 bit releaseBOTS
succesfully compile 5 files

then i go to run it
everything good then zone.exe keeps crashing nonstop without ever succesfully loading.

nothing in log files, so i recompile as debugbots
log files indicate that zone.exe is failing when trying to load quests, so it doesn't initialize.

I say ok fine, so I rename quests dir to see if it is a specific quest - no, it is still failing

I am stuck now

I even found dependancy walker (Great program btw), and none of the perl 5.14 dependancies seem to be looking for an x64 file so that (i think) is ok.

I suppose the next part is to learn some c++ - and run the server from the host instead of a vm, and attach a debugger to it, come back here and complain some more.

I can get it all working 100% if i use vs 2008, and an older perl / mysql, but I wanted to benefit from the reduced bugs (supposedly) of the newer perl and vs2010 optimizations for the server.

The server configuration itself is fine, i can load to char select even. And it was working fine before with the 2098 release

I am seeing some posts suggesting that perl 5.14 only works with x64? Then some people claiming they got it working with x86, so did those people who compiled successfully (as I did) actually get a server up and running with x86 version of perl 5.14?