Perl 5.8 5.10, lions tigers, oh my!

[Shiny151]

Originally Posted by Capheus

This problem seems to come up often. In the past year I have installed Perl twice and both times have had errors. In both cases I never had Perl installed or I was installing off a fresh format and windows reinstall.

The first time I installed Perl 5.8.9 and it gave me errors. So I uninstalled, deleted and reinstalled with 5.10.0. That didn't work so I went to 5.8.8 and that worked.

The second time I installed 5.10.0 and that didn't work. Did 5.8.8 and that didn't work. Did 5.8.9 and that worked.

On my other computer I did 5.10.0 and that worked on the first attempt.

So what gives? What is with the random success rate on version X.X.X?

Yep I agree. I had this happen too. On a fresh/clean install of XP on my desktop, Perl version 5.10.0 worked perfect. I tried it on my laptop with no prior version and I got the .dll error. The version that ended up working on my laptop was version 5.8.9. The only difference was the version of the Emulator I installed. I'm no programmer but perhaps it has something to do with the version that is installed on whoever compiles the code for the emulator?