Re: [MiKTeX] latexmk can't find loadable object for IO (after update?)

[Mikhail T. <ml...@gm...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikhail Titov <ml...@gm...>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012  8:18 PM
> Subject: latexmk can't find loadable object for IO (after update?)

> Hello!
>
> latexmk used to work just fine until recently. I'm not positive whether
> it happened after update or something else got in the way.
>
> Here is what I'm getting when I try to execute latexmk.
>
> ,----[ Perl bundled with MikTeX fails to use IO(); ]
> | C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin>latexmk.exe
> | Can't locate loadable object for module IO in @INC (@INC contains:
> | C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib .) at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX
> | 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/Handle.pm line 266
> | Compilation failed in require at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/Handle.pm line 266.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/Handle.pm line 266.
> | Compilation failed in require at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/Seekable.pm line 101.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/Seekable.pm line 101.
> | Compilation failed in require at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/File.pm line 133.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/IO/File.pm line 133.
> | Compilation failed in require at C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/lib/FileHandle.pm line 9.
> | Compilation failed in require at C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\scripts\latexmk\perl\latexmk.pl line 120.
> | BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\scripts\latexmk\perl\latexmk.pl line 120.
> `----
>
> Is it an easy fix?

I ended up renaming bundled perl.exe in <MikTeX root>/miktex/bin/ into perl.exe_unused . Luckily latexmk.exe
ended up using next perl I have (standalone strawberry).

-- 
Mikhail