[Arsperl-users] ars_SetEntry API Call and Windows Vista - not working

[Pieterse, R. <ric...@ca...>]

Dear members,

 

Hope anyone can shine a light on the following issue.

I used to run a working script successfully on 

-       ActiveState Perl v5.8.2, built 808 

-       ARSPerl 1.90

-       Win. 2003 Server and Win. XP Prof.

 

Now we moved to Windows Vista and the same setup is not working anymore.

 

The script contains all kind of ARS API calls, but only one crashes
Perl:  ars_SetEntry()

 

 

I tried to upgrade the ActiveState Perl first.

ActiveState Perl v5.8.2 build 822 shows the following in the Event
Viewer.

--

Faulting application perl.exe, version 5.8.8.822, time stamp 0x46aff16f,
faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp
0x4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000620e3, process
id 0x1a78, application start time 0x01c89af66c41a27c.

--

 

This points to a failure of using "ntdll.dll" which is a Windows DLL in
system32 directory.

The old system had a different version of this DLL:  5.1.xxx

 

 

Next tried to use ActiveState Perl 5.10 build 1002

This gave a different error:

--

Faulting application perl.exe, version 5.10.0.1002, time stamp
0x47866b91, faulting module ARS.dll, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp
0x4648c002, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00019c98, process
id 0x2134, application start time 0x01c89b06368c1ac5.

--

 

In this case not ntdll.dll causes the crash, but the ARS.dll file.

 

 

Conclusions so far:  

ARSPerl 1.90 does not work very well with ActiveState v5.10

ARSPerl 1.90 is not compatible with the Windows Vista version of the
ntdll.dll

 

 

Microsoft probably changed ntdll.dll. I can not just replace it by the
old one.

Maybe ARSPerl can be adapted to this new version?

 

I did my tests on three different Vista PC's

 

Any suggestions to get it to work with Vista?

 

 

Regards,

  Richard

 

 

 







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