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IO::Scalar install help

when i run install IO::Scalar on the cpan perl shell it opens the install process and seems to get to the very end where it hits a snag with a close handle or file ... this doesn't seem to fit with the other errors i hear about and i can't seem to find out how to fix it.
here is the only erronous content i can find in the output following the command install IO::Scalar

running make install
use of uninitialized value in <HANDLE> at c:/Perl/lib/cpan.pm line 4856
readline() on unopened filehandle at c:/perl/lib/cpan.pm line 4856
can't call method 'close' on an undefined value at c:/Perl/lib/cpan.pm line 4860.

Any and all help appreciated
-Tim

http://search.cpan.org/author/ERYQ/I...b/IO/Scalar.pm

http://search.cpan.org/author/ERYQ/I.../IO/WrapTie.pm

Download these, save em in the directory and it should work fine

then do the:

Code:

perl -MIO::Scalar -e "print 'Installed'"

in the command prompt

thnx a lot ... i still couldn't find the files on the net, but somehow i ended up with them on my comp ... just in the wrong place .. after i copied them over it worked fine tho

Thnx

-Tim

Glad I could help someone =D~

man ... it worked ... but now the only error i am recievign is after i run world.exe when i run boot5zones ... the zone will give me the following error message

[status] error initializing the perlembed : failed to install plugin printhook , do you lack IO::Scalar?
[status] fatal error initializing perl: failed to install plugin printhook, do you lak IO::Scalar?

i have absolutly no idea what to do ... can anyone help me out here?

-Tim

I am having this problem as well. Zone.exe will run for up to a minute, then I get a crash out with the same error above.

lol, sry forgot to add a response that i had managed to get it working ... i kinda gave up on the perl and c\switched over to the win per-compiles and was working with those only to find that the quest system uses perl so i switched back to those compiles and played around with a few things and then just tried the cmd

make install IO::Scalar ... which i had tried before but had not worked ... anyhow this time it worked ... but i still get an error it says

[error] Starting command queue mapping ...

anyhow ... i haven't figured out what the problem with this is ... but it doesn't rly seem to be effecting anything ... so i am content for now ...

SO... i hope that if you try make install it'll work ... and if not i hope you figure it out ... BTW do you know of a way to force zone.exe to load a certain zone instead of sleeping ... ie: one of the zones is always gfaydark or nexus or unrest or sumthin ?

Hope that helped

-Tim

Copying those files makes a perl compile run, but withought actually enabeling Perl quest system. so you have to get the install to work or find a new way to get it to work because it wont load quests correctly if you do it by downloading the files off the internet

Or get the source and compile it, but exclude the EMBPERL_PLUGIN definition.

I posted this on another thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by troutman

Thought I'd add what I found as a solution if having troubles installing Scalar. File is config.pm located in your perl\CPAN directory. Change the red line below to include the location of NMAKE.exe. This has worked on 2 installs for me.

# This is CPAN.pm's systemwide configuration file. This file provides
# defaults for users, and the values can be changed in a per-user
# configuration file. The user-config file is being looked for as
# ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm.

$CPAN::Config = {
'build_cache' => q[10],
'build_dir' => q[\.cpan\build],
'cache_metadata' => q[1],
'cpan_home' => q[\.cpan],
'ftp' => q[C:\WINDOWS\system32\ftp.EXE],
'ftp_proxy' => q[],
'getcwd' => q[cwd],
'gpg' => q[],
'gzip' => q[],
'histfile' => q[\.cpan\histfile],
'histsize' => q[100],
'http_proxy' => q[],
'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],
'index_expire' => q[1],
'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],
'keep_source_where' => q[\.cpan\sources],
'lynx' => q[],
'make' => q[d:\eqemu\bin\nmake.exe],
'make_arg' => q[],
'make_install_arg' => q[],
'makepl_arg' => q[],
'ncftp' => q[],
'ncftpget' => q[],
'no_proxy' => q[],
'pager' => q[C:\WINDOWS\system32\more.COM],
'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask],
'scan_cache' => q[atstart],
'shell' => q[],
'tar' => q[],
'term_is_latin' => q[1],
'unzip' => q[],
'urllist' => [],
'wget' => q[],
};
1;
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