Santhosh Kulandaiyan wrote: > Hello, I would like to know your comments about this issue that i am > facing. I have downloaded the 64 bit perl from active state and i am > trying to run my perl script on this 64 bit perl engine (in Windows > x64). The perl script refers to Win32::API module. > > I tried to copy the 32 bit Win32::API.pm into the c:\Perl64\lib\Win32 > folder. But when i try to run the script (perl -c myscript.pl), it > throws an error saying : "Unable to load the perl module".
This will not work. 32-bit DLLs cannot be loaded into 64-bit processes. > I would assume this is because the perl module was taken from a 32 bit > machine. > > Is there any 64 bit version of Win32::API.pm available? Does it even > make sense to ask if Win32(!!).API would have a 64 bit version.. Yes, it makes sense to have a 64-bit version of Win32::API. Win32 nowadays is just a name for the API; it is used even for the 64-bit Windows API. Unfortunately the Win32::API module doesn't compile on Win64 right now. Note that 32-bit Perl runs just fine on 64-bit Windows. The main caveat being that 32-bit programs see a redirected filesystem and registry, so you may not be able to see _all_ parts of the local system. But depending on what your script is doing it may not matter. There is also no problem installing both 32-bit and 64-bit Perl on the same machine (into different directories). But of course only one of them can be first in the PATH, so will have to invoke the non-default version with a full pathname. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
