Re: having problems after installing camelbox

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On May 17, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Jamie Lahowetz wrote:

> I have just switched from ActivePerl to Camelbox and am having  
> trouble running my Gtk2 scripts ( I have deleted AP). I receive the  
> popup errors:
> This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not  
> found.
> This application has failed to start because Cairo.dll was not found.
>
>  and the terminal shows:
> C:\Users\deadpickle\Desktop\test>perl GRRUVI-v1.35.pl
> Can't load 'C:/camelbox/site/lib/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.dll' for module  
> Gtk2: load_file:
> The specified module could not be found at C:/camelbox/lib/ 
> DynaLoader.pm line 20
> 3.
>  at GRRUVI-v1.35.pl line 13
> Compilation failed in require at GRRUVI-v1.35.pl line 13.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at GRRUVI-v1.35.pl line 13.
>
> The errors point to "use Gtk2" in the script.

When you "use Gtk2", Gtk2.pm will ask DynaLoader to load Gtk2.dll,  
which depends on libgtk2-win32.dll as well as Cairo.dll, since the  
Gtk2 xs bindings use C functions exported from the binary that  
underlies Cairo.pm.

The error messages about being unable to find MSVCR80.dll and  
Cairo.dll imply that

a) the bindings were linked against a C library you don't have  
(MSVCR80.dll -- are you sure it wasn't MSVCRT80.dll, the MicroSoft  
Visual C Run Time library version 8.0?)

b) the Cairo bindings are either not installed or not in perl's  
library path.


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