Re: missing prigraph.dll and broken examples in Prima-1.28-strawberry-5.10.0.zip

        Hi Michael!

On 10 сен 09 at 17:24, "Michael" (Michael Korntheuer) wrote:

 Michael> I just installed Prima 1.28 on a Strawberry 5.10.0.6 and it
 Michael> didn't work :-( Even a "hello, world" did not work... or VB...

 Michael> Everytime I got a message about a missing dll: "prigraph.dll".
 Michael> This file is nowhere to be found in the Prima package.

 Michael> Finally I downloaded "Prima-prigraph-win32 (1.06)" from CPAN and
 Michael> copied "prigraph.dll" from that package to
 Michael> C:\perl\site\lib\auto\Prima and everything started working...

Hi Michael,

Thanks for testing! I must say that it is a bug somewhere if Prima didn't
work out of box, because that totally wasn't the intention. The binary
should've contained the prigraph.dll but somehow it didn't. I've added the
file to the archive now, would you mind help me with downloading it once
again and testing the installation? It works on my strawberry, but just in
case. That'd be much appreciated!
                                                                                      

 Michael> The examples are ".bat" files and they all have the same problem.
 Michael> They try to start up perl with the address of the local directory
 Michael> like: "C:\perl\site\lib\examples\perl.exe" which does not work in
 Michael> stead of simply using "perl.exe". You can easily patch all those
 Michael> .bat files manually by removing the 5 letter string %~dp0 on line
 Michael> 4 and line 7 of each file. Those .bat files are clearly generated
 Michael> by the installer, so I guess the installer should be fixed.

This is something I cannot confirm. Bat files are installed using standard
pl2bat, which adds a standard bat-thingy prefix, and on my strawberry
they don't contain anything like C:\strawberry or full path, just "#!perl"
or "perl -x" but that's it. I'd be grateful if you could send me header
of any bat example so I'll try to figure what went wrong. Also if you can
invest a bit of time and work out a patch to ms_install.pl that does such
strange things on your strawberry, that'd be even better. But again, I
can't confirm that on my installation it does anything wrong.

Thanks!

-- 
Sincerely,
	Dmitry Karasik