Matt/Bruce,

The workaround of adding...
"set Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem

set Path=%PATH%;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin\gnuplot\bin;"
...to the top of my dathena.bat file worked, and the software is now up and running once more.

Thank you so much!

This explains a lot! Even though I was editing the path as suggested, every time I ran Athena the batchfile was setting it back to the crippled one shown in the log file I sent you. I didn't realize that the batch files did this. Presumably this dodgy path was an artifact from one of my earlier attempts at installing, before I had made the appropriate changes.

Thanks again for helping me so fast - I was barking up the wrong tree, convinced that the problem was a compatibility issue with Perl.

Best wishes, and thanks again,
William

On 12/07/2015 17:47, Matt Newville wrote:

Hi William,

As with the recent message about Demeter on Mac-with-Parallels, I suspect this is an issue with how the PATH is set.   It looks to me like you don't have all the path locations set correctly, though it also appears that it is finding the DLL, just not recognizing it as a Win32 DLL That probably means some other DLL is interfering, but I'm not certain of that.

I would suggest setting path explicitly to

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin\gnuplot\bin;

You could even try putting this at the top of dathena.bat (and dartemis.bat, etc):

    set Path=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem

    set Path=%PATH%;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin\gnuplot\bin;

Hope that helps -- and please let us know!

--Matt
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