Server Start Up Error

[WillowyLady]

Hi,

I have been unable to post until today, so I dont know if this is happening with anyone else.

Few days ago, I downloaded Ver 408 installed it and downloaded peqdb_1129Rev408.sql and sourced it in.

Immediately on starting server I receive this messege

The procedure enrty point Perl_hv_common-key-len could not be located in the dynamic link library perl58.dll

Everything was working perfectly fine before installation. Therefore on the face of it perl58.dll should be fine, unless something was changed that may have affected that.

Any ideas would be welcome, I have obviously reinstalled perl a few times, but error still persists.

Thanks!

[Zandig]

Newer versions of the Emu require Perl 5.10

To update see section 3 of this wiki article:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=VS2008

[WillowyLady]

Thanks Zan,

I did try installing that version too, with the same results.

But I will try installing it again.

Regarding the procedure given on the link provided

Do I need to now follow that complete procedure, or should just installing perl 5.10 be OK.

Thanks again for the advice, Zan

[WillowyLady]

Ok updated to 5.10 and still receiving same error message.

[Andrew80k]

Originally Posted by Zandig

Newer versions of the Emu require Perl 5.10

To update see section 3 of this wiki article:
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=VS2008

I'm running 417 with perl 5.8, so 5.10 is not required. However, I do believe that someone made 5.10 usable as well. It just doesn't preclude using 5.8. I will say that I'm running on Linux and I compile it all myself.

[Zandig]

Originally Posted by Andrew80k

I'm running 417 with perl 5.8, so 5.10 is not required. However, I do believe that someone made 5.10 usable as well. It just doesn't preclude using 5.8. I will say that I'm running on Linux and I compile it all myself.

I compile my own source code and Perl 5.10 is indeed required to compile successfully (on Windows), so I would think it best to use this version when running the Emu. (Again, talking about Windows here).

WillowyLady - After uninstalling Perl 5.8 I do not even have a 'perl58.dll' file, it was replaced by a 'perl510.dll' file!

Sounds like you did not uninstall the old version properly?

[WillowyLady]

Hmm, I am sure it did uninstall it.

I used the uninstaller provided, wiped C:\perl, manual searched hidden / system files, done a reg clean, rebooted and reinstalled.

The error message points to a perl58.dll index issue. This has only occurred since I did most recent update 408, previous versions are just fine.

Its prolly something very simple, but its just nailing the bugger down.

[Zandig]

Hmmmm.....

Then it seems whoever compiled your Windows binaries compiled them using Perl 5.8 and compiled it with errors (bad compile). They need to compile the source using Perl 5.10 and then your error should disappear.