Hi Alfred, I am thrilled that you discovered the problem, because I was stumped! Actually, you have uncovered a problem I have been worrying about for some time. I have been procrastinating on addressing the problem because such a small fraction of Windows users will ever see the problem. As you have found, Demeter coexists poorly with other versions of perl installed on the computer. A partial list of software which will trigger this conflict includes: ActivePerl CitrusPerl / Cava package manager Git for Windows MinGW (possibly -- one can install MinGW and not install perl) Cygwin There are probably other, but that's the list of things I know of which will install a version of perl that cannot be guaranteed to work well with Demeter. There are at least two work-arounds: 1. The one you found is to edit your PATH so that C:\strawberry comes before all the other possible locations of perl version. The problem with this is that doing so might break other software you have your system that is expecting to use a particular perl installation. 2. If you are actually using perl on your windows computer, you can download the Demeter source code and install Demeter following the linux installation instructions. You will need a proper development environment so that Ifeffit and various other dependencies can be built and installed. Citrus, MinGW, and Cygwin can all, in principle, provide this level of support. Obviously, this can be done. I had to do all of this in order to build the Demeter installer. I know of at least one user of my software who opted to work this way. If you or anyone else has any substantive suggestions for how best to deal with this sort of conflict, I am very eager for good suggestions. If anyone would like to help me package Demeter more effectively on Windows -- that would make me deliriously happy. Thanks, B On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 04:23:46 PM Alfred Hummer wrote:
Ok,
I found the problem. There was a version of MinGW installed on the computer. I just placed the MinGW PATH variables after the strawberry ones, and it worked.
So it was a special conflict between software packages on my PC.
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