Panic while starting Zone servers with Perl quests

[brinks]

getting same error, custon build or binaries, with or without EMBPERL_PLUGIN defined.

winxp sp1, perl 5.8, path is set correctly
added the path to lib files for perl in vc6
with
perl->eval(std::string("$").append(pkgprefix).append(": :").append(varname).append("=q(").append(value).ap pend(");").c_str());

E:\EQEMU\5C9DC~1.2PE>perl -MIO::Scalar -e "print 'AOK'"
AOK


with EMBPERL_PLUGIN
[Status] 150 commands loaded
[Status] Loading embedded perl
panic: top_env

without EMBPERL_PLUGIN
[Status] 148 commands loaded
[Status] Loading embedded perl
panic: top_env

sigh, dont know what to do now.