[Catalyst] Installing on Windows XP

[Karl.Moens at marsh.com]

Robert wrote:

> I used the Task::Catalyst bundle to install Catalyst on my XP box. I got
> a "weak references" error afterwards when I tried to create a site. I
> seem to remember hearing about that at some point (I think).
>
> Robert

I had the same problem some time ago. It seems IMHO that it is due to the
newest version (1.18 ?) of Scalar::List::Utils being installed. If you
install it through CPAN you get the non XS-version which does not support
weak references and if you then install it through ppm, it still does not
support weak references.

To solve this I had to install ActiveState Perl again (in a different
folder) and copy all Scalar::List::Utils related files from the fresh
install over the existing Perl install (don't forget the files in the
auto-folder, it is here that the XS-files are!). IIRC the latest AS Perl
uses Scalar::List::Utils 1.17 and that seems to work.

Karl
aka CountZero on Perlmonks




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