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

[Thilo S. <thi...@ap...>]

Did you compile it yourself or did you use the binary distribution?

If it's the binary version, would it be possible for you to compile it 
from source code? There seem to be all sorts of binary 
incompatibilities. At least the second problem (ARSperl compiled for 
Perl 5.8 not working with 5.10) I'd consider as somehow "normal".

Furthermore, the binary ARSperl doesn't work with 64-bit ActivePerl.


Regards,
Thilo



Pieterse, Richard wrote:
> Dear members,
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> Hope anyone can shine a light on the following issue.
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> I used to run a working script successfully on
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> -       ActiveState Perl v5.8.2, built 808
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> -       ARSPerl 1.90
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> -       Win. 2003 Server and Win. XP Prof.
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> Now we moved to Windows Vista and the same setup is not working anymore.
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> The script contains all kind of ARS API calls, but only one crashes 
> Perl:  *ars_SetEntry()*
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> I tried to upgrade the ActiveState Perl first.
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> ActiveState Perl v5.8.2 build 822 shows the following in the Event Viewer.
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> 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.
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> --
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> This points to a failure of using “ntdll.dll” which is a Windows DLL in 
> system32 directory.
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> The old system had a different version of this DLL:  5.1.xxx
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> Next tried to use ActiveState Perl 5.10 build 1002
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> This gave a different error:
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> 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.
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> In this case not ntdll.dll causes the crash, but the ARS.dll file.
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> Conclusions so far: 
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> ARSPerl 1.90 does not work very well with ActiveState v5.10
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> ARSPerl 1.90 is not compatible with the Windows Vista version of the 
> ntdll.dll
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> Microsoft probably changed ntdll.dll. I can not just replace it by the 
> old one.
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> Maybe ARSPerl can be adapted to this new version?
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> I did my tests on three different Vista PC’s
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> Any suggestions to get it to work with Vista?
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> Regards,
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>   Richard
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