[svk-users] Trouble getting set up on Win32

[David Golden]

On Jan 17, 2008 11:22 AM, Chris Weisel <chris.weisel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. If you install the new Strawbery Perl 5.10.0, you can get weird
> situations where the SVK perl executable is run instead of the Strawberry
> Perl one. (DLL hell?) For me, the answer was renaming the perl.exe in
> C:\Program Files\SVK\bin to svkperl.exe and changing references to perl.exe
> in c:\Program Files\SVK\svk.bat to match. I also deleted the PATH
> manipulation in svk.bat.

Heh -- I wrote that note.  :-)

I thought that it might have been conflicting socket modules.  I guess not.

> So, I guess I have Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2.  I don't have any perl
> entries on the path, but I found a perl.exe inside C:\Program Files\SVK\bin
> (I have C:\Program Files\SVK\ on the path).  Should I add the bin folder to
> the path?

That shouldn't be necessary -- the svk.bat file manipulates the PATH
automatically for you.

This sounds like it might be some Windows permissions issue but I'm
pretty much stumped now.  Sorry I couldn't be more help.

David